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...Dean Greenough have embarked upon their project in the belief that harmonious surroundings are in themselves a furtherance of the humanistic aims to which the house plan is dedicated. The results that may be expected in this direction can be estimated only by those who have actually seen the tranquil beauty of Dunster House on the banks of the Charles and the cloistered dignity of the central court of Lowell House. That some little formalism of manner and management in the units should be borrowed from the older universities of an older country is entirely fitting. Dons and high tables...
While the Vagabond surveyed the tranquil skeletons of forthcoming buildings in the CRIMSON precinct from the gold, blue, and pink effulgence of Lowell House tower late last night he contemplated the work before him on the morrow. Too long, he mused, had he postponed the struggle with the broken pens, the clotted ink, the sartorial, laundry, and periodical soliciters which awaited him in his old haunts at Memorial Hall and its surrounding greensward. Now he would be pushed and jostled by his late fellow arrivals intent on registering before the Bursar demanded an extra check for $5 from his already...
...feel perfectly tranquil and safe among this mass of workers,"* mildly observed Il Duce, no longer ravenous and raving, last week to 150,000 workmen in a third and placid speech at Milan?the speech of a man who has dined and is content. ". . . It is unnecessary to recount what the Fascist Government has done for labor. We think of your interests, all your needs, because we love you as workers and fellow-Italians. Today's feast of labor shows how the regime respects labor and the workers...
Whenever a graduating class of college men gathers together for the last time, the average observer who marks the occasional black of cap and gown benath the tranquil June sky inevitably hears, like an echo from some forgotten source, the magic words: "Out into the great world." Each generation that has graduated and grown old has tinged this period with roseate vagueness until all the days of youth become "carefree" and all the trees have become immemorial elms. Memory is usually kind to the college years, and the returning grad of the nineties condenses them into a pleasant bundle...
Mozart's Quartet in B Flat by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Columbia, $6) - This is called the "Hunting Quartet" because a theme in the first movement resembles a hunter's horn. The Adagio, tranquil and in no way suggestive of the skelter of the field, is played by the Leners with expert tenderness...