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...competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with a topographic map representing a location in Sandwich, Mass., on Cape Cod, and were asked to design a tea-house lay-out, with tea-terrace, garden in the New England Colonial manner, boat landing, and other arrangements calculated for the pleasure and accommodation of patrons...
...days when it is customary to expound the defects of the rising generation it is pleasant to find that youth often justifies itself in a quite unexpected manner to a quite unexpected degree, and confirms the suspicion of some of its teachers that it has rather more than its share of talent, ability and courage. A striking example of this has been given by the Harvard Dramatic Club, which entirely against the advice of many of the elders who were consulted decided to put on the stage Andreyev's "The Life of Man", and did so with more success than...
...whether they are registered. If they so desire, all men taking their degree in 1923, even though they did not enter with the class, may be enrolled providing they have not registered with any other class. These men, however, must apply especially to be enrolled in this manner...
...plot deals in a humorous manner with the story of Antony and Cleopatra and follows in a general way the version of Shakespeare's play until the second act in which a football game between Caesar and Antony is introduced. The audience sees a scoreboard in Cleopatra's palace and follows the game along with the crowd...
Evidently these two young and spirited gentlemen were devoted to a form of idol worship, but the tribute which they laid at the altar of love is nothing compared to the tributes which present followers of the sport lay before all manner of altars, including that of the Knock-out Punch, Good Looks, the Dome-run Swat, and of multifarious others. For years Valentine's idle heroine worship has been the only religion of a young "louyere and a lusty bachelor", but now the "irrepresible vitality of youth" does not let him rest content until he has gone far afield...