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Exhortations in formal vein having proved themselves formerly in vain, the CRIMSON casts aside its arterial robe and dons for the moment Lampy's purple and yellow gymnasium suit. Its purpose is to lay bare the shocking nakedness of Ellis and other equally deserving islands to the eyes of the University. Gentlemen! their chattering teeth exposed to the furious tempests, their blue-black lips crackling and rustling in a vain attempt to produce the sadly sweet notes of "Aw, wert thou in the cauld, cauld-slaw" these shivering inhabitants of a deserted island beg you on their unbendable and likewise...
...room cabin of typical "poor-whites." Act three shows the exterior of the mill; act four, the cabin again. Sixteen characters, not to mention ten women's voices speaking out of a mob, mark another difference. Finally the structure of the play is in quite another vein from that of Miss Lincoln's. Where "The End of the Bridge" gradually evolved the story of Peter and at the same time showed the recovery of a woman's mental balance and her growing love-for the doctor that saved her, "The Product of the Mill" is a simple narrative...
...GEOLOGICAL, CONFERENCE. "Specimens from New Calcite Vein in Medford." Professor Palache. "The Supposed Subsidence of the Massachusetts Coast." Professor D. W. Johnson. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Specimens from a New Calcite Vein in Medford." professor Palache. "The Supposed Subsidence of the Massachusetts Coast." Professor D. W. Johnson. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...different vein are the articles on "Aeronautics at Harvard," by Mr. Brown, on "Lacrosse at Harvard," by the captain of the team, Mr. Alexander, and on "Commercial Harvard," by Mr. Henderson. In the latter, we find such suggestive items of information as the following: the total annual sum paid in salaries to professors, instructors, and assistants is $550,000, and the total sum paid to students in fellowships, scholarships, aids, and prizes is $134,000. Nowhere in the world is the promise of young life rated so highly in comparison with the performance of maturity, and, paradox though...