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First-year students awoke yesterday morning to find a flavorful new decoration flying above the South Yard: a sign made of 130 pizza box emblazoned with the words "Long Live Neil" strung between two fire escapes from Weld Hall to Matthews Hall...
...years of silence on the subject of class. For the first century or so, the whole concept of class was derided as something foreign and decadent, along the same lines as male cologne, and inappropriate to a nation with an open frontier. Mention of the word could get you strung up or shunned by the politically correct. Later, in the 1950s, use of the word class joined vegetarianism and folk dancing as one of many telltale signs of communist leanings. Hence Senator Philip Gramm's recent denunciation of the Democrats as latter-day communists, "trying to create the same class...
...there are problems with the bells, it is because of a lack of funding. Recently we have had to jury-rig several of the bells with our own hands on account of the bell-ropes breaking from age. Others should be re-strung, but we are unable to reach them. As a result, four of the highest tones are currently unavailable for use. However, the bells still represent the only set of Russian bells in the Western Hemisphere, and are one of the few sets extant in the world...
Like many people in today's high-strung society, a number of professors view music as a way to relax after a long day at work. A few select instructors even take an active role in creating melodies...
...unforgettable. Again, the Edmund that Gammons has chosen to spotlight has lost his affinities to King Lear's "naturally" volatile Edmund--he is too hard-edged, too sophisticated. The Edmund who imagines himself better-suited to being a seagull and who reveres the Decadent poets should be more high-strung, sensitive and romantic. Edmund should have only occasional success in aping Jamie's cynicism...