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...February of 1924 the Union held the first Valentine Dance as an innovation with the idea that a big social function coming at the end of the midyear period and on the eve of important athletic matches with other colleges would be received enthusiastically by its members. The fact that the limit of capacity was reached was considered sufficient reason for continuing the practice...
...hands on the big foursided timepiece of Memorial Hall were buried in ice and snow and refused to function. At 2.15 o'clock in the early morning the clock on the Germanic Museum gave up the fight...
...short poems and one longer one, compounded of dreams, half-thoughts and the stinging lash of passion, running in and out of obscurity, now fading into drifting leaves. Some of them, including the major piece, "Priapus and the Pool," suffer grievously from obscurity. In such the supreme function of poetry seems nearly lost- the function of making thoughts clearer than ever words were meant to make them. The more enjoyable poems are the simpler: the richly oriental "And in the Hanging Gardens"; the ironic "The Wedding" (of Arachne with her prey) ; The vampire in Woman, "Electra" and the brave "Tetel...
During the interministerium, the business of state drifted along amicably enough. Since there was no one to criticise, the opposition could not function. Necessary business was attended to; controversial measures were not considered...
...appallingly frequent parentheses, and the occasional obscurity of his symbolism, has been accorded by his reviewers is an encouraging sign of the growing maturity of criticism. The contrast between the present ideal of interpretation and the old reviewer's method of judging according to fixed principles, shows how the function of criticism has changed since the days of the supremacy of the Quarterly and Edinburgh Review...