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...been advised that the experiment last year did not result in any beneficial results. Last spring, much time was used in transporting the men to and from Cambridge, the salt water was usually rough, the shells were not satisfactory, and the men had only ice water for their shower...
...meantime Admaston has been warned by an anonymous letter, that his wife is in Paris alone with another man. He hurries to the scene and arives jus; after Peggy's missing friends. He is greeted with a shower of lies, all of which he is able to lay bare. The divorce proceedings follow directly. In the court Peggy protests her innocence, and in a passionate outburst, flays a legal system which demands the truth, but will use only so much of it as is applicable to the purposes of the prosecutor. In the final scene the writer of the anonymous...
Moreover, as the report of Mr. Tibbetts shows, the material blessings which the Association is able to shower on students in Syria or Germany or Mississippi are often shared by students in the University itself. In its loan libraries, loan funds and other adjuncts of a similar nature, the Phillips Brooks House carries on a most useful form of social service work, probably little realized or appreciated by the College as a whole...
...bookshop is an insidious thing. Its portals are as inviting as the jaws of a trap. The unwary passerby is almost irresistibly lured into its mellow interior, perhaps to while away a pleasant hour in contemplation of its variegated shelves, perhaps only to escape a sudden shower. There is so agreeable an absence of obligation. No one feels the least demand upon his purse when he enters a bookshop, any more than when he strays into a friend's library. He means only to "look around," feels a. certain pride in assuring the unobtrusive salesman that he is hardly...
Water, water almost everywhere and not a drop too much to drink! The piteous cry has resounded through Cambridge during all this week of "gala festivities". Portly undergraduates and graduates have been dwindled to emaciated shadows; it is not inconceivable that some unfortunates disappeared under the confetti shower of Tuesday in nameless but heroic graves...