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...simply detestable, and if you wanted to induce me by money to come and teach them, I can only say you would have to offer me more than 10,000 pounds sterling a year." Another letter of interest is one written by Carroll in such small script that it is hardly legible. The letter was signed "Sylvie," and purported to be from the fairy in Carroll's story, "Sylvie, and Bruno...
List among facts, for which to be grateful the present system of registration in Harvard College. The undergraduate may feel that his name in his own particular script is as legible as in a hasty printing but he should congratulate himself on the brief time necessary for registration. In the majority of universities, registration is symbolical for standing endlessly in line, for answering countless questions and for filing innumerable bonds. The registration limp is as vital a disease as the writer's cramp and much more prevalent. And the hours which pass while waiting in line are among the bitterest...
...Charlot said that any act in revue, no matter how good the script is valueless without an actor whose personality will put it across. There are two kinds of shows, one that is played to a passive audience, and another that demands its hearers to meet it half way. The former type is passing, because it serves no purpose and has no effect on the audience, but give it idle pleasure...
...does the poet confine his line sketches to the medium of words: paradoxically enough, he uses the medium of letters. All through the book are little pen drawings built up of alphabetic script distorted to form pictures. Here too, humor pops up without warning, notably in the sketch of a whirlwind going up a flower. In short, he who reads "The Candle in the Cabin" will find psychological symbolism verging on the profound and subte wit verging on the hilarious...
...writes a manuscript and another wants to read it, that should be a simple affair to arrange. Let Tom Writer take his script to Dick Reader, or send it by Harry Carrier. Difficulty will enter only when several thousand writers and several million readers mutually desire contact. Then Harry Carrier may not be the only one whose services are required...