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...turn out to be so handsome in his new uniform?" Such a reversal of roles is worthy of an article by Mr. Shonts. Is it the war spirit, or what, that has driven the bride's gown into obscurity? The local paper no longer expatiates on "the bride's veil, which her great grandmother's aunt wore during the Revolution," but devotes a whole Society Note to an account of Lieut. Jones's activities at camp, his fighting ancestors, and the probability of his return as a colonel. --New York...
...cheering on Saturdays means much more than the observation of a few hundred men during the week. Lastly, any individual ought to be willing to sacrifice the pleasure of satisfying his curiosity when the success of the football team is at stake. Therefore, let the undergraduate body no longer veil the word "secret" with mysterious, undemocratic meanings...
...class of the mediocre belong the three bits of verse, "The Jap Doll," "Lamentation," and "The Caravan." The first transposes the "Madame Butterfly Motif" into the familiar key of Kipling's dialesticisms. The second is a highly colored trifle as frail as the "jewelled veil gossamer" that its writer mentions. The last is purposeless but inoffensive. Like so much modern verse, all of these compositions lack the bone and fibre of solid thought and poetic necessity. They leave the impression that their authors sat down and cried, "Lo, I must produce a poem," and then cudgelled their brains...
William Berryman Scott, a delegate from Princeton University; a persistent and thorough explorer of early mammal forms, he has helped to draw aside the veil that shrouds the mystery of life upon our planet...
...theme published during the last month, a trifle too high-pitched to suggest absolute sincerity; and to be insincere about Lincoln is a crime. The American people have doubtless been much moved in recalling their great hero, but it is only the poets who have been blinded by "a veil of sudden falling tears...