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MINICK - A penetrating, if somewhat placid, investigation of what happens when an old and idle father meddles too long with his daughter's domestic strategies...
...short weeks of vacation have broken the thread of students habits--if one had them. Upon the golf links at Pinehurst, upon the sands at Miami, on the toboggan at Lake Placid, or in the quiet comfort of the family fireside, the Muses whispered in faint and unreal tones; Kant's "Critique" somehow seemed impertinent logic. But now the holidays are over. The dirty stop of Cambridge streets recalls a reality not to be doubted...
CHRONICLES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY?Maud Wyndham ?Hougliton Mifflin?(2 vols., $10.00). These books, based upon the correspondence of the Lyttelton family, cover one of the most placid periods of English history?the early Hanoverian period. Apart from their value to history, which is not inconsiderable, they show what a wide chasm the England of today has jumped...
Transatlantic is a study of the passengers of a great liner on a voyage to the U. S., their problems and their interrelationship. There are, notably, Harry, young American with a continental veneer of snobbery; Burleigh, placid Britisher; Jennie, "good sport," life of the party...
During the days on which the squad is in New Haven before Christmas practice will be held in the baseball cage. On December 27 the the squad will go to Lake Placid for the regular annual vacation practice in conjunction with the Williams team. on January 2 and 3 the Yale team will meet Queens college in Pittsburgh in two games, and will then return to New Haven, where practice will be held, weather permitting, on Bishop's Pond in Woodbridge, Connecticut...