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...Coolidge '87, Director of Widener, during his stay in Moscow. Included in the collection are some extremely rare and learned works, such as the reports of the Russian Archeographical and Archeological Commission, and these will be valuable to advanced students in the University. Books of a lighter vein, some illustrated by Russian artists of the new school; Bolshevist periodicals, many of literary and scholarly merit; and scientific tracts, are numbered in the list of works. The report of the Russian Academy of Science deserves mention as one of the most valuable of the sets...
...number, humor comes more easily. The author of the casual lines entitled "By the Way" has done his work uncommonly well. In economy of expression he excells as well as in the quality of his matter. Likewise, "Typical Topics" and "Lampy's Question-Box" are well done in a vein familiar to readers of humorous columns in contemporary newspapers. Into the involved "Chart" the statistician has inserted sly fun, and also some commonplaceness. "The Freshman's Credo" is another bit of sophisticated writing which has avoided the fatal touch of routine. Much of the verse, too, is skilfully written...
...there is nothing antiquated about "Dolly Reforming Herself", nothing either in technique or in point of view that one would wish treated differently by a more modern playwright. It is the most genuinely amusing comedy that Henry Arthur Jones ever wrote, and he has had few superiors in that vein. The plot is trifling, the situation almost threadbare; yet there is something about characterization and dialogue that makes it intensely funny,--a trace of satire and a dash even of dignified burlesque, but always perfectly plausible people in everyday situations. The money-box penalty for swearing has become a stock...
...Friday--or Saturday. The CRIMSON weather bureau, on the other hand, in its customary observation from its basement window, announces that there will be early showers today, followed by fair weather with light westerly winds and a rising temperature. Hence we are in a quandary. What shall be the vein of the annual Class Day editorial? Shall it be wet humor or dry humor, shall we indulge in a little mud-slinging or merely raise a cloud of verbal dust? A question which our editorial minds, after three days' holiday, refused to answer. So we put on our raincoats...
...Levi" and "I've been working on the railroad" of the not so distant past. The repertoires will not be classical by any means--the names of Brahm or Palestrina or Rubinstein are not likely to appear on the program--and while the music will be of a lighter vein than is usually associated with the Glee Club, it will be decidedly of the better sort. If the Club had nothing more to its credit than the responsibility for this change, it would still be heartily deserving of praise...