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...state tournaments that young sportsmen aspire for their first laurels. Aging sportsmen retire thither for their last. Last week...
...situation in the Bakery Trade"). There is one remarkable piece of primitive architecture which apparently served as the monastic refectory. It shows marked Byzantine influence and in its turn became a model for several college chapels in Oxford and Cambridge, England. It seems likely that the style was carried thither by one John Harvard, who was expelled from the monastery, for his peculiar religious views and founded in England a community called Emmanuel College, where thought was intended to be free. He still retained some affection for his native place in spite of its rigorous discipline, for the little colony...
...dear Usbek, was attracted to a group, or tribe, of Satellities which I was told contained the most advanced thinkers to be found in this Universe-city. These choice souls call themselves the Why-nots and hold their meetings in a barn amidst the red flare of torches. Thither I went with great hopes, and witnessed the most extraordinary manifestations of advanced thought. By special invitation, Jaipurdhi, the Indian fakir most noted for his piety and fifth, had come to address them upon the fundamental necessity of discarding all clothing for complete self-expression. With great enthusiasm the Why-nots...
Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee-they are blue.* Last week, they exhibited in the Daniel Gallery, Manhattan. Thither went some who were informed, some who were curious. "Why," asked the latter, "are they blue? Why do they call their pictures, Dynamism, Abstraction, Mystic, Musical, Choral, Life, Silence?" "To have names," wearily, kindly, replied the informed...
...called a crime de charité. Newsboys ran madly along the boulevards bawling out last-minute news of the proceedings. The kiosks were besieged by excited crouds loudly demanding the latest edition of the Intransigeant or some other afternoon newspaper. In the hot cafés, where garcons scurried hither and thither with the large trays groaning under the weight of amer-picons, bocks and grogs americains, men discussed the trial in an undertone, sad, strained expressions on their faces...