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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eleventh annual Junior Dance was held at the Union last night. Nearly 175 couples crowded the big floor of the Living Room, creating a scene of kaleidescopic festivity. The decorations though simple, were so artistically arranged that the usually cold, stone corridors and be-news-papered lounging rooms seemed converted into a veritable fairyland of youth and gaiety. Laurel wreathes formed the chief decoration, being draped along the walls and caught up at the chandeliers in long festoons. The Chinese lanterns were strung about in profusion and with the regular lights softened by red crepe paper shades, the entire scene...
...February number of the Monthly does not loss in interest though it presents a surprising contrast to the "Pagan" issue of last month. The figures and sentiments of antiquity no longer flit through its pages; they are replaced by comparatively modern and sordid actualities; like the U. S. Foreign Policy, the "Movie" and the Theatre and the Harvard Regiment. The prevailing note of the number is non-fictional; indeed, the only serious criticism that can be brought against the Monthly of 1916 is the absence of anything particularly creative in the realm of the short story...
...temperance and lucidity of his style--a charm which we encounter frequently in the best work of the so-called "Pacifist" school, and which is in happy contrast to the bow-wow of the opposite camp. Mr. Reniers concludes his article on the moving Picture in this issue. Though a little slow-moving, it is clearly patterned and has been written with pains. The "Agrippina" of Mr. Lyman Dudley lacks what so many historical productions lack,--a sense of atmosphere. Mr. Burrows' article on our foreign policy is youthful and sincere, and (so far as it goes) arrestingly written...
Last fall Professor Richards received the first Nobel prize in chemistry ever given to an American. His human interest in all his problems will undoubtedly make his oration highly interesting, even though the audience is not composed of scientists...
...Freshman eights reported today. They were rowed in relays of three on the machines. Coach Haines and A. Beane '11 supervised the work. The men have now been more or less definitely divided, though it is probable that many radical changes will be found necessary before long. The first two eights are as follows...