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...deeper significance. The pensive young Puritan seated in the shadow of Memorial Hall embodies in a way the spirit that the University is proudest to foster: an earnest thoughtfulness. John Harvard was a young nonconforming divine who came to this continent in the early days of the colony in search of freedom for his thought and teaching. He was not much over thirty when he died, leaving half his fortune and his whole library --of considerable size for those days--to be used by the college which the General Court was about to establish. His bequest was the chief support...
...first gallery, and almost before he could hang us his coat had been swamped by a rush of spectators. Then he discovered that the seats were numbered as no seats ever were numbered before. A lightning calculation could not have figured out the location of any one seat; a search was necessary--like that for the needle in a haystack. For example--in the first gallery the seats in sections C and D were as follows, beginning...
Although in such cases, only too often the expended effort will be found not worth while, still there is a need for such relentless search of the dust-covered librettos of the past; for there in many cases will be found music and plots of a very high order that will give pleasure to a modern audience...
...Kipling, who is probably the chief sponsor of the device; but since all followers are likely to exaggerate the tricks of their masters, it is a dangerous instrument for indiscriminate use. In the "Translation from the Navajo", the vicissitudes through which the author has to pass in his search for the realization of his dream are narrated with a painful vagueness. It is all very well to claim that such a method enhances the desired mysticism or the exotic Indian atmosphere; but technical devices should not become obvious mannerisms, and the interpretation of some of the episodes almost baffles even...
...week from today Phillips Brooks House will begin its annual clothing collection. The committee in charge urges that everyone cooperate with the collectors by making a careful search and turning over to them everything in the line of clothing, boos, and magazines for which they have no further use. Old coats, suits, shoes and text-books are especially desired...