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Upon that background a young Oxford boy and his sister are introduced. They bring to the humdrum provincials a taste of the outside world that was theirs before marriage tied their existance down to a limited routine. The boy is a somewhat typical English lady as lady novelists conceive him to be, and as, indeed, he may in truth be. He is charming and his restless spirit brings to life the suppressed longings of the women he meets. His sister, who is married but does not live with her husband, is the female counterpart of Hugh. She effects...
...cited the burlesque shows of the Scollay Square district. Boston countenanced, even stared at, these productions so in all fairness to Art he says that he should be allowed to put on the same kind of thing. He forgets that this machine age is fast forcing culture into the background...
...Athletic Association's avowed rotating schedule policy looms ominous in the under-graduate mind. The result of long standing intercollegiate rivalry is to give certain games a permanent place on the schedule. It is not altogether comfortable to have to realize that a rotating policy remains somewhere in the background as a potential rude interruption to the natural course of events...
...plot has to do with the difficulties of one who suddenly finds himself transplanted from the present into the Eighteenth century. A charming old house in Berkley Square with its glamorous traditions of lovely ladies and powdered wigs forms the background in which the half-forgotten specters of the past are brought once more to life. Peter Standish, Leslie Howard, a man of the present with an Eighteenth century counter-part is enchanted by the historic flavor of the past with its sedan chairs and coaches, but when he finds himself immersed in the actualities that went along with this...
...Division of Ancient and Modern Languages. The argument is based on the ground that, with the student engrossed in the advanced work of his field, the last year in college is too late for the examinations to realize their greatest usefulness. Since these tests are designed to insure a background of classic literature they should take place before specialization is well under...