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...stunning array of truly exceptional dramatic and motion picture offerings which confront Boston theatregoers this week sets the high water mark for the year. The polished Abbey Players with their beautiful Elleen Crowo present a sophisticated yet poetically smooth type of drama that must appeal to the most sincere and intellectual appreciation...
...melancholick reflections as might have befitted Panterias the sage, when the future course of his life was revealed to him by the haruspex; as that all the labors of the scholar, the resolutions of the philosopher, even the ecstasies of the poet are meaningless and in vain, when they confront the dark and fathomless abyss beyond. Outside, through the high shining windows of the hall, could be seen the white, jagged clouds and the blue author in which they were so lightly afloat. The sweet wind hurried in through the open casement after it had touched the bare trees. . . howbeit...
...upon him, every possible opportunity for improvement. To deny the justice of these claims is to deny the principles upon which Harvard's under graduate education rests today. Argument relative to the validity of those principles is singularly futile; long experience has demonstrated their value. The general examination must confront all applicants for the A.B.; the Tutorial System must be compulsory...
...their ideas on all subjects of University or outside interest. Through the aid of constant criticism, their style and the clarity of their writing will improve rapidly. Like news candidates, they will become familiar with the devious workings of the University and the various educational and financial problems which confront...
...field who challenge the existing order. Although it has barely touched the world the undergraduate lives in, (it may have forced him to modify his way of living but it has not forced him to abandon it) yet it has been sufficient to give reality to the difficulties which confront...