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...many incomprehensible things about a University is the scarcity of interesting courses given on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Perhaps it is due to chance, or even to a malicious desire to wreek a student's week end by making the more intriguing lectures fall on Saturdays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/19/1926 | See Source »

...Garland contributes two pieces of verse: one in simple "Wreek of the Hesperus" style, seems strangely old fashioned among its up-to-date surroundings; the other, "Old Books to Read," a happy treatment of a theme that never grows stale. Mr. Bradley Randall's "Memoir of my Dead Past" deals with a phase of experience too remote from the reviewer for him to pass judgment on its truth. But it is clearly the kind of thing that must be handled delicately if at all: and it is hardly suitable material for the experiment of an apprentice. Mr. R. S. Mitchell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of January Monthly | 12/18/1913 | See Source »

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