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...true in many senses of Monet's greatest work. The famous series are exquisite color harmonies, -blurred if the observer stands too close, vivid and truthful if he steps back,-but not so much pictures of haystack or fields, as of the changing light and air which surround them. Monet was working, when his eyesight failed, on the last of his great series, the so-called Nympheas, 300 separate paintings of a single lily pond in his garden...
...beginning of each round more than seven hundred are expected to be on hand,--not as large as the crowd at a football game, perhaps, but a good showing for so staid a place as "Mem" Hall, and one which may well draw smiles from the portraits which surround its walls...
...origin of this paradoxical animal remains a mystery. Perhaps it originated from one of those insectivorous swarms that surround are lights, Lamps, and other sources of artificial light. By some, it is supposed to be a humerous tendency of a dying race. By others, it is heralded as the first delicate development of actual thought in individuals long-buried in the slough of wit. By this last definition, it is a freak to the encouraged. Students of Harvard, we have here an unsurpassed opportunity ot practise that Christmas spirit; to herald this hybrid bug as a true struggler toward...
...represents the person to be murdered in the first chapter; "B" is the extraordinarily beautiful girl, somehow related to "A", upon whom suspicion is cast by the local police; while "C" is the famous detective who solves the various "mysterious", or "sinister", forces--"Z to the nth power"--which surround the murder and emanate from "X", the villain or unknown quantity. The formula is then derived by cancelling "A" with "Z to the nth power", subtracting "X", squaring "B" and adding "C", with as many other factors as the ingenuity of the author can devise...
...laboratory for the study of cancer which has been erected adjoining the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital will be opened next Monday by the Cancer Commission of the University, thus adding one more building to the imposing group of hospitals and laboratories which surround the Medical School...