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...Would sink a half a dozen Arks...
...notion can have survived from more Puritanical days that the theatre is a sink of iniquity from which the college man should hold virtuously alcof, it receives its death. How in the announcement of Professor Stuart that the Triangle Club is about to build a four hundred thousand dollar experimental theatre at Princeton. Not a few of the recent innovations in scenery and lighting, such as the cycloramic cone and the "rainbow" effect, have originated among students at eastern universities. With exceptionally complete equipment and a professedly experimental attitude Princeton ought to have little difficulty in becoming, as Professor Stuart...
...Fate, in this struggle for existence, dooms animals to be quick or to be dead, and the frog who allows his body temperature to sink on a cold day will find his muscles too sluggish for him to escape the experimenting biologist. It is only through exerting his metabolic functions in muscular action that he can raise his temperature...
...which can be given it. But two hundred thousand dollars looms rather large on a college horizon--and even if some generous benefactor should present the entire sum with no strings attached, such as a Chairman in Anglo-Saxon poetry or India philology it might not be justifiable to sink it in a golf course. Universities require many things; this one in particular has certain pressing needs which seem to follow a sort of Malthusian law with to yard to the supply. The golfers will gave to be philosophic like the swimmers, the gymnasts and the polo-players...
...tutor. They are able to talk informally--not always about the book. But the student leaves with the conviction that he has thought profoundly and discussed learnedly for a few moments. He may be inspired to read another book. In any case, slowly but surely knowledge begins to sink...