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...unfortunate if a man has only one class on Saturday and would like to have that class changed to Friday; but the rule is definite and inviolable. He must register after his last College engagement and College engagements cannot be broken. If there are any left who are too dull to understand the rule or who are self-pitying enough to see reasons why they alone should be allowed to break it, then they deserve any ill-temper which may fall to them from the Dean, whose misfortune it is to have to listen to them...
Studies of studies, criticisms of criticisms, comments on comments, might easily have been repetitive, desultory or dull. But such is not the case here. Each writer has given as much of himself as of his teacher, and some a great deal more. Everywhere in the number one seems to be in contact with "men thinking," and not with easy-going youths chiefly troubled about turns of phrase. Indeed, in what these men exhibit of their own quickened imaginations and strengthened capacity to handle ideas, lies perhaps the most striking witness they offer to Mr. Santayana's power. That...
...extending only until the April recess, more candidates must report at once, in order that the team may make any sort of showing in the games scheduled in the near future. No previous experience is necessary, and the game provides an excellent opportunity for exercise and sport at a dull season of the year. Numerals will be awarded the team at the end of the season...
...harmonies and unusual or complicated progressions. But therein, as the composer knows, the separate chords may not be dissonances; on the contrary, they must be capable of strict analysis, otherwise they cease to be music. Neither must progressions by too ambiguous on penalty of the effect being flat and dull. Mr. Spelman's notions of dissonance need revision, but it is not his fault: our whole musical nomenclature needs it before one may be sure what another is talking about...
...High Road," though dull in spots, yet gives us Mr. Sheldon at his best...