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...Mourner", plays of last year, and the mother in "Slug", the first production of this year. She was one of the authors of "The 47 Varieties", a musical parody on the Workshop's productions given last year. Miss Halman wrote three plays produced by the Workshop: "Will o' the Wisp", "Rusted Stock", and "The Play Room". She will publish shortly a book of one-act plays called "Set the Stage for Eight...
...pocket magnifying glass of John Ruskin were placed on exhibition yesterday in the Treasure Room at Widener Library. They are gifts from the family of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46. The exhibition also includes an etul case of Mrs. Thomas Carlyle, a locket containing a wisp of Thomas Carlyle's hair, a volume of original letters to Professor Norton from Longfellow, Lowell, and others, an original manuscript of John Leverett, President of the College from 1708 to 1724, and a contract of a grant of land to Sir Joseph Eyles bearing the Great Seal of Great Britain...
...Specs, and Ad Libs., how ye seek after "wizards that peep and that mutter." Runs the proverb, "Facile est descensu--" and the makers of the Tower of Babel could not reverse it. Brilliant as the new light may be, make sure that it is not a will o the wisp whose lustre increases with the approach of death...
...Princeton plans called for a complicated system of examination by alumni boards to determine a candidate's personality,--whatever that means. Dartmouth is at present pursuing the same will-o'-the-wisp, now known as "well-rounded development on all sides". Instead of examining boards there are to be two elaborate certificates of "personal rating", one to be signed by the principal of the preparatory school, the other by "somebody actively connected with Dartmouth, either an undergraduate or recent alumnus". Every man will thus be hand picked, and enter the college sponsored by someone well acquainted with its traditions...
Thus does the restless sex pursue the will-o'-the-wisp of Equality. The curious thing is that woman and child labor laws have always been regarded as beneficial to the employee, and as such have been fought tooth and nail by the "moneyed interests. "Indeed, those states which load in such legislation have always been considered as the most progressive. Now that she has discovered that it is all a gigantic conspiracy on the part of the male population to keep her in bondage, emancipated Woman is determined to cast off these chains as well. She likes to think...