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...other shops have commenced dealing in this class of books: the Community Bookshop on Boylston street and the new department in the Cooperative which deals only in fine books and first editions imported from London. It is only very recently that, while in one of these shops, I overheard an undergraduate asking the clerk for one of a set of finely printed books which he was collecting...
...sometimes wonder just what constitutes public opinion, anyway. The other night we overheard someone in the theatre lobby remark: "This must be a fine play. Look at the crowds trying...
...daughter, whom he planned to marry at the house of the Wise-Woman. Boyster, "a blunt fellow," also loved the gold smith's daughter, but he had made no progress in his courtship. Meanwhile the country Luce had come to London after Chartley, and, disguised as a page, she overheard the plans for the wedding. She then engaged herself as a boy in the service of the Wise-Woman, who carried on a flourishing trade in quack medicines, enchantments and fortune telling. Chartley had incurred the displeasure of the Wise-Woman, and she on learning from the supposed boy that...
...tenth number of the Advocate, contains the following articles: "June Roses," by J. L. Price '07; "The Fall of St. Williebuoy's," by D. W. Streeter '07; "The Joy of Criticism"; "Plato and the Prima Donna" and "Overheard by the 'Cellist," by E. B. Sheldon...
...Charlot is to feign death, as though he had been killed in a drunken brawl. Genevote is to agree to marry Granger on condition of being allowed to go through the marriage ceremony with a supposed corpse first, and at the proper time Charlot is to resuscitate. Paquier has overheard the scheme, and the plan fails. As a last resort Corbineli makes the play he was ordered to prepare, a comedy in which Granger is induced to sign a supposedly sham contract between Charlot and Genevote, which is eventually proved to be genuine. The play ends with the happiness...