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...goaded into violence by the grocer's brutality, are at length supported by the militia, who seize the store under martial law, and distribute bread to the needy. The play is well constructed, and its dramatic effects were well managed. The suggestion of the distant fire as a background for the action of the play was especially effective...
...Edward VI and his court to the University of Cambridge, where an entertainment entitled "A Masque of Prophecy," depicting the future of the art of architecture, is given in his honor. The historic setting has been arranged to utilize the possibilities of the Union Living Room as a splendid background for an affair for this kind. Besides those taking active part, there will be present members of the Faculty, representatives from the Boston Society of Architects, and from other organizations representing artistic activities. All these guests will wear academic or historic costume. After the masque, supper will be served...
...Senior class buttons have arrived and will be on sale at Holworthy 17 today at 25 cents each. The design is a small circular button with a black background having the numeral "11" in an orange centre. All men wishing to obtain buttons should do so at once, as the supply is limited. To make this custom of wearing Senior buttons a success, every man in the class should have...
...which bears that virtue for its title--a happy, humorous, altogether real story of a grind and the way he got over it--the simplest, truest story of college life in the reviewer's memory. The other stories are cruder in execution, though less sincere in purpose, be their background the gold fields of the Yukon as depicted by Mr. Hoffman; the civilized though somewhat vague habitations of an Irene, serially being educated by Mr. Moderwell; or the dusky hillside of a pair of married lovers left in a state of suspended emotions by Mr. Hunter...
...meeting of the Senior Class Button Committee held yesterday afternoon a design submitted in the competition by Herbert Jaques, Jr., '11, of Chestnut Hill, was chosen for the class button. The design chosen will make a very small circular button with a black background having the numeral '11" in an orange centre. The buttons will be put on sale, if possible, before the mid-year examination period begins. The price and place of sale will be announced later...