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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stranger. In other words, it is the old cry of "Drag" and "Cliques." But it is indeed an old cry--one so often repeated that it has long since lost its meaning. For one disgruntled upper-classman there have usually been ten men who came into college friendless and unknown, yet were able by their merits to win the recognition they sought...
...youth under twenty. After a few years it was necessary to add the room on the second floor and in 1898 the office was removed to Dane Hall where for nearly twenty years it occupied the first floor of the easterly section of the building. A fire of unknown origin which occurred on February 3d, 1918, compelled the temporary removal of the office to the Varsity Club from which in September, 1919, it was again removed to its present temporary quarters on the Delta...
There is a story about a certain mouse who inadvertently lapped up the drippings from a barrel of whiskey. Consequent to this he made a now famous remark-addressed to the world at large. We mention the mouse because his spirit, it seems to us, is not unknown here today. Those who went down to the field yesterday and are also familiar with the story will be able to appreciate the pertinence of its application on this, the eve of the game...
Every aesthetic possibility of these seeming-fragile structures, these English cathedrals, Mr. Conant has realized and rendered with short, firm staccato pencil strokes. All the training of the professional architect is behind him, and that implies a solidity of handling unknown to the disintegrated impressionist schools. (Nothing could be more different, for instance, than three etchings of Venetian Palazzi by Whistler, which hang on one of the other walls of the room.) One notes too a technical advance over the Spanish drawings, a greater range of values, in particular a greater use of black...
...music and oriental sensuousness never fails to charm; his orchestration will forever serve as a perfect model. It is a pity then to think that he is only known to us through "Scheherazade", "Capricco Espagnol", and "LeCoq d'Or", when there are some fifteen other operas and ballets totally unknown outside of Petrograd, Moscow, and Paris...