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...have not. At such a time the great mediaeval problem of distinguishing between the saved and the damned resolves itself into a simple matter of time. Already the great trek, the annual hegira, the exodus, the migration, the wholesale flight from Cambridge has begun. Happy youths gloat over and display to friends long yards of tickets to the mountains, to the lakes, to Europe (including Paris), to anywhere--it doesn't matter much--so long as the passage reads "from Cambridge...
...shops about the square have caught the spirit of the thing. Sales of all kinds tempt the departing student to carry away with him all the odds and ends left over from the year's business. The drug store windows display barrels of delicious looking moth balls. Everything presages the disintegration of the college community. As the line of march to the rotunda begins to form, the Crimson extends to the departing host its heartiest wishes for a pleasant vacation and a safe return to the fold in far-away September...
...Papacy was deprived of its temporal power. The illumination was done not with electricity but with thousands of tallow torches and candles, many of which were encased in saucer-shaped lanterns, giving the impression of a blazing building. It took 300 men a fortnight to prepare the pyro display. Many thousands of frantic people cheered in polyglot tongue: "Long live the Pope!" "Vivet la Sainte Thérèse!" "Viva la Chiesa Romana...
...write with assurance. They preserve an air of tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness of style mark each story in turn. I cannot think any of the work, however, able as it is, distinguished by an authentic and native gift...
AREN'T WE ALL??Cyril Maude has returned for a brief spring display of the genial English comedy which was a hit last season...