Word: sphinx
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...matters at all, for it is about as capable of being fully appreciated by an American audience as the Zend Avesta by a white-tied Methodist. Not that "Major Barbara" is not enjoyable, adverse criticism would reflect nowhere but on the unsatisfied but it is all so mysterious and sphinx-like...
...building of the Sphinx-Kalu met Club at 72 Mount Auburn street will formally open this evening with the dedication exercises at 6 o'clock, followed by a dinner. President Lowell will be the guest of honor...
This new building is the result of the union of two clubs, the Sphinx Club and the Kalumet Club. When the new Freshman dormitories were opened, these two organizations felt that the need of waiting clubs was very much decreased in the University, and after various meetings of graduate committees, the present union was formed...
...blank verse poem on "The Sphinx's Silence" by Mr. J. Gazzam, Jr., is a dignified effort. It includes several excellent lines, but several others, too, which are far from pentametric. With its conclusion that woman is hard to understand there will be no general disagreement. Mr. Heffenger's thoughtful sonnet "Success" is simply but unpoetically expressed. One is less certain of Mr. Rogers' ideas in the long poem "Death"--a large subject--pent in a rather exacting rhyme scheme. If the author had been less vague and more self-disciplined, it might have been easier to share his vision...
...Shea's "Our Sphinx" is a wild yarn of college life whose hero is a mathematical Swede addicted to dope. It is effectively told...