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...last touch of dressing is to choose a cap from the basket Josephine produces. M. France holds them out on his fist, one by one-papal bonnets, velvet skull-pieces, pagoda-caps, purple choir-wafers, mandarin hats. He fits on one in red-current Jouy cloth. The day begins...
...grade in school, was rewarded by her mother with a rubber ball. Gertrude bounced the ball joyously high in air, landed it in a flower box, climbed up, clutched the side of the box which, unsettled by her tug, toppled with its 200 lb. of earth upon her skull, crushed her to death...
...must to all men, Death came to Donn Barber, famed architect. He died last week in Manhattan after suffering for three weeks with tumor of the brain. Although, during this period, a sinister and daily exaggerated swelling of the skull made it clear to him that he was doomed, Mr. Barber, with that unruffled suavity which is the highest manifestation of civilized courage, continued to transact business over the telephone, finished the last details of plans he knew he would never see executed, set his affairs in order...
...Times is very near the truth. Even Harvard, which prides itself as being an intellectual institution does very little thinking. All the coarse frivolities of the small college are omitted to be sure, but in their place there is a vast grey void. Harvard has no fence, no skull caps, and no Freshman riots and for that it may be justly thankful, but in abolishing these petty nuisances, it has introduced no corresponding good. Harvard would have a better right to criticize the childishness of other colleges if it had more to its own credit. At present a certain conventional...
...individuality" has left its mark on students for nearly three centuries. But if it is now to yield so readily to the onslaughts of provincial collegians, the Student Council might just as well declare it at an end, rechristen the Yard, the Campus, and make the Freshmen start wearing skull caps...