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...preparations for lathering failed to soften the beard at the base. Shaving the upper lip was especially painful, and frequently it brought forth unbidden tears...
...April, 1916, d'Annunzio was shot down in an airplane while scouting on the Italian front. He lay at Rome in danger of blindness, even death. Duse rushed, unbidden, to his bedside. Partial reconciliation followed...
...Bolles, who, we believe is the originator of the project and on whom the burden of the labor will fall, we extend, although unbidden, the heart-felt thanks of the students, for we believe that were public opinion capable of expressing itself as one man it would call upon some one to perform that very duty which we have taken upon ourselves...
...study serves as reading-room, cloak, and lunch room for the fifty-three young women now enjoying the instruction of the Harvard professors. The reading-room of the "Harvard Annex!" Your fancy, unbidden, suggests harmonious colors, inviting easy chairs, a few choice pictures; a happy blending of order and confusion in the details; a wooden mantel, framing a fire-place, and perhaps a bust of Minerva, or, at least, a stuffed owl presiding over it; book-cases filled with all that a student needs to have at hand, leaning in comfortable retirement against the walls; a study. with room enough...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-We wish to express our sympathy for yesterday's letter-writer; that ingenuous youth, who "cannot conceal his embarrassment when he hears his own blunders laughed at." We suppose the poor fellow cannot keep back the scalding drops that rise unbidden to his eyes each time the instructor dares to say his English is faulty. Poor fellow, we sympathize with you. We, too, have had pet themes sat upon, but we didn't have sense enough to make public our feelings on such occasions. Seriously, if the subject was so painful a one, why did the gentleman...