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...shows in the simplest manner that things are not always what they seem. What is apparently a sharply bent line may be actually a lead pencil resting in a glass of water, the refraction occurring at the surface of the water where the pencil emerges into a less dense medium, causing it to appear bent. A spot that appears to be white upon a black background is actually gray when seen on a white background. A projectile shot vertically upward from the earth really follows a curved course in space, due to the sidewise motion imparted...
...succeeding five minutes of play the only point scored by the Crimson was a free throw by McLeish. Although both, teams tried many shots from the middle of the floor neither one succeeded in scoring by this method. Dartmouth got her scores from medium distances after skillfully passing the ball down the court...
...proportion as the imagination is stimulated by other means, the novel ceases to have its former sphere of action. The situation may be classed as economic. It is a question of action and interaction. In proportion as one medium supplies a need, another medium is taxed less stringently. At the same time, there will always be a place for the novel in literature and life, so long as life is lived by story-loving human beings, and literature is produced by them. Signs are, indeed, not lacking that as the motor car, the airplane, the motion picture, cease...
This neglect has aroused all the criticism of "Harvard indifference." The foreign student here finds his way to personal friendships with his class-mates a difficult one to follow unless he is an athlete or inclined towards some branch of University activity. His one outlet is through the medium of the class-room, and class-room associates are not in general, of a very lasting kind...
...musical setting as given it by the Chicago orchestra, and the color put into it by the leading singers, made it a work of beauty. Miss Garden's medium voice sounded shop-worn, but above and below it was rich--and much could have been forgiven in return for the impressive manner in which she dominated each situation. The figure of Flora, scarlet-clad, waving to her departing husband from the battlements, is memorable, and the ensuing struggle with Archibaldo before he kills her, is a most impressive climax. M. Baklanoff, as Manfredo, outdid his comrades with a smooth...