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Only in his writing was Beaumarchais honest, for with a queer, premonitory genius he created, not records of what had happened, but symbolic representations of what was to come. In the poisonous atmosphere of France of his time, he responded in the way that birds taken into coal mines respond to the first faint whiff of gas, to developments of which less sensitive spirits were unconscious. When the Revolution actually broke out, he was horrified. Forced to run for his life, he was imprisoned, exiled. The only time he ever realized his ambition to mingle on equal terms with...
Would all those in the Harvard stands who felt the same way please respond to a collection which would be taken forthwith...
...Harvard stands, composed of not more than six thousand people, would so respond, to the extent of $900. Anyone who before has doubted the popularity of the band now has a practical proof of appreciation...
Jones damaged his shoulder in Tuesday's scrimmage, but until yesterday the injury was not believed to be serious. When it failed to respond to treatment as well as expected, the medical staff turned thumbs down on the chunky center's chances of meeting the burly Crusaders this weekend...
...What I will do first, what I will sing first when I am fully recovered I am not sure. I love concert work. . . . But opera was my first love, and I hope that soon the public will respond to it as music lovers did some years...