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SUNDAY morning these fine fall days are taken up with reading about the "40,000 football enthusiasts" or the "gaily-bedecked crowd of 60,000 that watched the game on Saturday." And so they probably did, unless there were enough men in big fur coats who jumped up at every play and yelled "Now we're off!" thus obstructing the view of an appreciable percentage...
Three other prizes were given to undergraduates in the competition as follows: one of $100 to Martin Luther Hope '19, of Eldorado, Mo., for an essay entitled "Thomas Hardy"; one of $50 to Carl Schmalz '19, of Huntly, Ill., whose subject was "The Fur Trade (1600-1700)"; and a third of $50 to Robert Pierce Casey '19, of Dorchester, who wrote on "The Fatherhood of God in the Teaching of Jesus...
...luxuries of life are relative to the character and station of people, to the location and temperament of nations, and to the advancement of civilization. To the poor an automobile is a luxury; to the business man or statesman it is a necessity. Fur coats are indispensable in Norway while they are far from necessary in the more temperate regions of the earth. A Hottentot considers the necessaries of civilization the height of luxury. When interpreted in this light there are few things of daily life which do not in some way answer important needs of society...
...pajamas or fur coats at night, or in less picturesque garb at day, the pleasure seekers follow the clanging engine. The light of the fire is in their eyes. Their minds are joyous for the sight of great building crashing, and brave firemen being overcome, and fair heroines on eleventh stories jumping into their anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals...
...Eyvind of the Hills," an Icelandic drama in fur acts by Johann Sigurjonsson will be produced by the 47 Workshop as its second set of performances in the Agassiz House Theatre on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 o'clock. The play was originally written in Danish and its translation by Henninge K. Schanche was published in a single volume with another of his more recent plays, "Hraun Farm," this fall by the American-Scandinavian Foundation of America...