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...firemen, defending themselves from the cheers of the Freshmen, who attended in a body, baptised the gathering, while students strolled about, souvenir hunting. Several squadrons of policemen, fearing an informal repetition of Saturday night's affair, also attended in a body. As silently as they had come, the fire engines withdrew at 10.19 o'clock...
...name listed as composer of four unpretentious musical impressions which Conductor Henry Hadley's Manhattan Orchestra played in St. George's Church. Fairly descriptive were the titles "Chinese Magic," "The Unknown Soldier" (inspired by a monument in Budapest, guarded always by a soldier on horseback), "Souvenir de Montmarte," "Tartar Dance." Composer Woodin relates that it was in the 1880's, when he, 18, was recovering from a throat operation in Vienna, spending his time in the Volksgarten listening to Johann Strauss conduct his own waltzes, that he became "really musical." As a child, piano-scales had bored...
Hardly had Captain Bairnsfather finished his interesting and highly amusing lecture, when the platform was stormed by a misguided group of souvenir hunters fighting to obtain the cartoons which he had drawn during the course of his lecture. In the melee which ensued, the easel was upset, and many of the drawings were torn to pieces by these pseudo-gentlemen, supposedly engaged in acquiring culture at Harvard...
Introduced as the last resort of distracted librarians and disappointed the sis-scribblers, the Turnstile, though the only solution for a serious problem, has its more human aspects. Two hundred years hence, its humble metal may be the goal of souvenir-seekers, the present-day transatlantic aeroplane enthusiasts, who will fight for a chip of the swinging arms rubbed thin by the contact with many shrunken, scholarly paunches...
Republicans in Washington squirmed painfully last week when Robert Johns Bulkley, Democratic Senatorial nominee in Ohio, arrived in the capital with a souvenir of the G. O. P.'s 1928 campaign. It was a copper coin marked: "The Hoover Lucky Pocket Piece-Good for four years of prosperity." Declared Nominee Bulkley: "I'm here to get this thing redeemed, but it doesn't seem to have much of any value and payment has been refused...