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What newly matriculated student, as yet ignorant of both Harvard and Cambridge has not pondered heavily over the involutions of the map which graces the booklet, wondering if streets called straight have any place geographically in the maze which surrounds Harvard Square? Who has not opened to the rules and regulations of the University to find that the first is that all football games except that with Yale are played in the Stadium? What eye has not rapidly scanned the list of Important Dates in the college year, starting with that of registration and blithely swooping over the months...
...been a temporary one for King Zoser, used pending Im-Hotep's completion of the nearby Step Pyramid, under the wall of which it lay. Or perhaps it was Zoser's queen's tomb. The sarcophagus, still hidden, would tell. Meantime the diggers marveled at a maze of deep tunnels, at remains of blue tiling, at a dozen alabaster wine jars...
...seem that there was something a trifle wrong with American colleges. Perhaps the truth lies in the fact, as has been suggested in these columns before, that the modern university emphasizes analysis at the expense of synthesis, that we acquire information but no way of life, that in the maze of contradictory facts and theories which we encounter at this time we are offered no means of giving unity to chaos. The American university will not truly succeed in producing educated men until it quite frankly and without pedantry sets out to teach them "to see life clearly...
Backstage in "Sunny" land at the Colonial his life endangered by a maze of ropes, "props" and the frantic haste of Herculean property men constructing the "S. S. Triumphant", his wits distracted by the Eight Marilyn Miller Cocktails rushing from the spotlight to their respective dressing rooms and the thunderous applause of a Saturday makinee audience, a panicky. Crimson reporter tried to follow the witticisms of Jack Donahue, famous for his funny feet...
...order; after a day of handling, however, they are reduced to woeful complexity. Only those courses ending at the midyear are guaranteed the safe haven of being bound in book form. The others, the whole courses, are destined to lurk unseen or at any rate unfond in a maze of un-alphabetized sheets...