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Inspired by the symphonic orchestration of some rare specimens of the Dunster-bird which appeared at the game attired in Curley-for-Governor banners, baby bonnets and false whiskers, the Dunster House football team rose up to halt the Lowell-men on their title march by tying them 0-0. The game was characterized by long gains on both sides, but both teams lacked a scoring punch...
...spell. Most mature is the woman who was arranging her hair when Orpheus began to play. She suggests a worldly, sated figure to whom spiritual beauty has suddenly been revealed. A youth lifts his hand as if he were trying to catch the music. A man, holding a bird, motions it to be quiet while he listens...
...little bird dropped the hint into the CRIMSON's car last night that none other than Loon Trotsky, excommunicated Soviet leader, is now in Boston, travelling incognito...
Thereupon some 50 distinguished men and women began taking turns at the speaker's rostrum where alert, bird-like Mrs. Meloney presided, or before microphones in faraway places. Busy Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt dashed down from Hyde Park to give the Conference one of her neat little speeches which sound so much more important than they look in print. Said she: "The higher standards which women now set themselves, for whatever work they engage in, will raise the standard of men's work. . . . The biggest change in standards must come [in] the field of business and of labor...
...Anglicizing his name to John James he went to the U. S. in 1803, launched a series of unsuccessful business enterprises of which one landed him in jail for debt. A hunter and fisherman, he managed to make a living by selling portraits, did not think of publishing his bird pictures until he" was 35. Birds of America, his most famed set of plates, were engraved in London, began appearing in 1827, now fetch $10,000 for a complete...