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Besides being an incubator of fashions, first novels, potential potentates and U. S. esthetes, Oxford and Cambridge too, serve as an arena for the display of spirits, animal and otherwise. Such displays are called "rags,"* and are counted successful so far as they excite laughter...
...following review was written for the Crimson by one of the committee in charge of the exhibition on display in the Fogg museum at present...
...almost any minute of the day one may see splendid examples of courage and quick-thinking on the part of students crossing the Avenue perhaps, as long as it is possible, the situation should be endured as a breeder of Spartan qualities. There are some, it is true, who display a shameful cowardice and always wait for a crowd of their fellows to collect before attempting to cross in a body, but they are confined to the more timorous, or to graduate students with families dependent on them. The average undergraduate can give, in the network of Mack trucks, taxi...
...second act of the show is set in Jake's saloon, where the chorus is given a good chance to display its costumes and skill...
...himself thought might have a more permanent value than other writings--"The Happy Life"; "John Gilley"; the "Life of Charles Eliot". "These papers on the conduct of life are the answer to those who think of Dr. Eliot as a man concerned only with intellectual and material values. They display from many angles his profound concern with human character and his conviction that it is in spiritual things that the permanent satisfactions of life are found...