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...contest among the violin makers of Cremona. Taddeo Ferrari, the old violin master, has announced that the winner will receive not only the coveted trophy, but also the hand of his daughter. The play portrays the heroism of the hunchback, Fillipo, who nobly renounces his victory in order to avoid forcing his love upon Giannina...
This afternoon from 1 to 6 o'clock and all day tomorrow, the Crimson will conduct a hat exchange in its building at 14 Plympton street for the men who lost their hats during the snake dance. In order to avoid confusion, it is asked that every man who uses this exchange read carefully the following instructions...
Just as the crowd in the football arena are crouching down in their fur coats the better to avoid watching the home team fumble the kick-off, the crowds two and ten hundred miles away are settling back in their chairs and lighting up the old pipes, while the German-silver-tongued announcer steps to the front of the platform and delivers the following...
...tutorial system adopted in some departments here, in approaching a practical American adaptation of the English university system. Barnard will continue to develop ninety-five per cent of its students into good, all-round, intelligent human being and citizens, trained intellectually, physically and socially; but it will also avoid allowing the chosen five per cent to become narrow-minded specialists. For, says Dean Gildersleeve, "we will admit into the course only students with such intellectual ability and interests that they can absorb enough knowledge of philosophy and economics, or example, to make them intelligent citizens, without taking definite prescribed courses...
...standardized" mind itself was the subject of a special warning as being a psychological state frequently induced in an intelligent and active brain by four years in college. Dr. Sperry emphasized in conclusion that to avoid falling into this state should be one of our chief aims in college...