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...turned aside suddenly from the exciting whirl of business and politics to adore alone, in some inner room, the sensuous harmonies of Spenser. He dallied dangerously with court beauties; and then went to meditate for hours upon the attributes of the Deity in the cold church of St. Paul...
Wings Over Europe. "Up and atom," the scientists cry and in this play with its vaguely beautiful title Poet Robert Nichols and Stage-technician Maurice Browne have imagined a youthful researcher, the nephew of a Prime Minister, to have discovered how to control the tiny secret stars that whirl in thumbnail welkins. Perhaps the most encouraging trait of humanity is the ingenuity which it exhibits in making such discoveries; and perhaps the most discouraging trait in humanity is the lack of ingenuity which it exhibits in making use of them. The young atomist, accordingly, tells the British Cabinet about...
...dared to be himself in the presence of such betters as Wagner and Cesar Franck. Only Walter Damrosch seemed out of character at the concert last week. His conducting was kittenish, suggestive somehow of an old man out with a chorus girl who would like to make a whirl and does not quite know...
...Union to watch the turn of the tide reflect on the grid-graph. Lesser considerations must stand aside as the backs go tearing by. Rarely does the Vagabond feel the urge of mob psychology, that inexplicable longing to go and do likewise, but stirring considerations like those afoot today whirl him willy-nilly to the Union. In connection with this subject the Vagabond finds that there are some interesting lectures which he recommends...
There is a growing suspicion among those who have studied customs and manners during the past four or five years that the phenomenon known to the newspapers as the Social Whirl is gradually coming to rely upon the services of lower classmen for its masculine support. In the Junior and Senior years there comes to many undergraduates an awakening to the value of evenings spent in College and a coincident distrust of the glittering allurements of the ball room. The consequent open spaces in the ranks of the stags are slowly being filled by members of the Freshman class...