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...chief trouble has been indifference on the part of the advisers, indifference arising from the fact that the contact between adviser and advisee is a bit unnatural and therefore unpleasant. The committee has tried to lessen the unpleasantness of the contact, first by assigning to Freshmen upperclassmen whom they already know, and secondly by suggesting to the advisers specific subjects upon which the Freshmen may want advice. The first of these aims was accomplished in only about one half of the total number of cases a situation partly due to the haste of the committee in assigning advisers to Freshmen...
Miss Sinclair is short, she dresses quietly and she has a countenance which, in repose, seems a bit brooding; when her face lights she has the effect of being just a little startled, or, perhaps, amused. In her sweetness of manner and speech, she displays none of the telling irony that is so often present in her books. In this she reminds me somewhat of Zona Gale, although May Sinclair is never betrayed into arrant sentimentalities as is too often Miss Gale...
...direct the finger of suspicion toward her, that man is a very cynical blackguard. So, if you won't believe the worst of Miss Wood, she tries to make you believe the very best. And in this play she inclines toward a coyness that is unnecessary and a bit hurtful...
...Paddy first had them lowered in the same place early in the 90's. Then-the Schubert-Liszt Hark, Hark, the Lark, the melting melody of the 'Schubert B-flat Impromptu, and the inevitable Chopin group: Etudes, hurled like glittering lances, and a Scherzo that stung, bit and cooed seductively. Then encores-until the approach of the zero hour when gendarmes forcibly dispersed the immovably enraptured diehards...
FATA MORGANA-A young man wakes up to "the fact that a mature woman's passing fancy is a mirage-and learns it a bit more spicily than Booth Tarkington would teach...