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...announced with evident satisfaction at the first meeting of Zoology 1 that Venus would form an important part of the course. Whether the purpose of the professor was to increase enrolment in the course, the most visible result was a much heightened interest in the realm of science by the students. It was only after he announced, having allowed the proper dramatic pause to intervene, that Venus is a form of mussel which will be used for dissection purposes instead of the French snail, no longer procurable on account of the war, that the class settled down to the normal...
...worked during the summer in munitions plants or have attended a Plattsburg Camp. It has caused a fundamental economic change in the relation of our country to the gold market of the world. Yet, baldly stated, has it brought in its train anything more marvelous than the introduction of Venus for anatomical study...
...imaginative, individual, quaint--much the best thing in the number, both in conception and in execution. "An Aesthete's Nightmare" proves how rare the extreme aesthete type is in our midst--Mr. Dos Passos would never have to resort to such obvious and wholesome objects of art as the Venus de Milo, a Buddha, and Parrish's "Pirate Ship" if he had ever seen the animal in the wild state in his native lair--in Oxford, for instance...
...Hors de Combat, Secretary to Consul, W. E. Wellington '17 Julius Woodrow Napoleon Finney, valet, W. Faulkner '14 Hamilton Dyke, American rug agent, F. F. Munroe '15 Prince Nicomede, Prince of Ucalaly, P. Blackmur '15 Princess Maami, daughter of Sultan, R. H. Allen '14 Sultan, R. B. Whidden '15 Venus Snow, W. D. Foote '15 Diana Snow, (twins), S. B. Hoar '15 Grace Dyke, sister to Hamilton Dyke, J. J. Armstrong '14 Lion, S. L. Simonds '14 Alina, Maami's maid, A. R. Boynton '14 Lashar Bey, Prime Minister, J. F. Fuller '15 Two slaves: H. W. Schroeder...
...Grand Air de Venus," from the Prologue to the opera Dardanus...