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These manuscripts, loaned to the University by George A. Plimpton of New York, are here for only a short time. They are the life-work of some patient penman, the fancies of an artist "all shaven and shorn". "Look two and two go the priests, then monks with cowls and sandals. And the penitents dressed in white shirts, a-holding the yellow candles." They are a curious collection, full of interest for scholar and antiquarian; food for the imagination and the artistic taste of anyone who examines them...
...Frank W. Harding at first described the shotgun man as smooth shaven, but later used numerous words to describe the overgrown Charley Chaplin moustache of the same...
...America"--reads the Dramatic Club's announcement of its presentation this evening of Lady Gregory's "The Dragon." The policy of introducing new plays has proved an unqualified success. Too often college dramatic societies are thought of as producers of hilarious "girl and music" shows, in which closely shaven youths in feminine habiliments trip lightly over the stage after the recognized manner of chorus girls. The University's reputation in this line is in no way impaired by the existence of organizations that recognize the serious side of the drama. If the 47 Workshop is the outlet for the budding...
...Johnston Forbes-Robertson has written the Department of English asking for eighteen "tall, strong, clean-shaven men" as supernumeraries in his farewell performance of "Hamlet" in Cambridge. All those wishing to take part should report at Sanders Theatre this morning promptly at 10.30 o'clock. No one should report who cannot arrange to be at all three performances...
...Greek verse, or the translation of some filthy nothing scrawled on the walls of a brothel by some Pompeian idler. And it is certainly true that the material of thought reacts upon thought itself. Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly shaven vocabulary, and Phidias, had he worked in wax, only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley. A man is known, says the proverb, by the company he keeps, and not only so, but made by it. Milton makes his fallen angels grow small to enter the infernal council room, but the soul, which...