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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Miss Adams keeps the title of the original piece and the first appeal of her "Chantecler", as indeed it was of Rostand's, is to the eye and to the sense of the fantastic, the unusual, the surprising, behind it. The little yellow chicks are amusing to see; so is the hen putting her head out of the basket to utter wise saws; while the retriever snuffing over the wall and the mongrel dog pawing and growling in his straw are sure to please as quickly and generally as they did last evening. So, too, with the rabbits...
...spontaneous satire of this sketch is that irresponsible wit of undergraduates which is usually ignorant, sometimes cheap, yet often the arrow to the bull's-eye. When the Advocate wishes to be amusing it can be the most so in this vein. Otherwise, the issue invites the remark of a biographer of Hawthorne in the period when that author was journalizing over the progress of his cabbages and carrots: "There seemed to be a general vacancy in the range of his vision...
...bought. It is supposed that a stadium will be built in this site, but this fall it will be used as an auxiliary field. Some of the practice of the regular squad may be held there. The regular gridiron on Yale Field has been returfed and graded with an eye to per-feet drainage, and there is talk of saving this field for the scheduled games and holding much of the preliminary practice on the new gridiron. Yale men believe that an unusually successful foot- ball season is at hand. The coaching system is remodeled, the material is stronger than...
...reviewing and boiling down notes makes the reviewer at home with the entire field before him. The result is directly proportionate to the effort. The man who leaves the compilation and preparatory work to the tutor deprives himself of the most essential part of the review. The bird's-eye view of a subject is of little value without the foundation, and when an examination question involves reasoning the lack of familiarity with the groundwork is fatal. That a thinking student should purposely deprive himself of the most essential part of his preparation and pay for the privilege is hardly...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "The Effect of Colored Light on Pigment-Migration in the Eye of the Crayfish." Mr. E. C. Day. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...