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There are two hour examinations each half year which are marked on the basis of a literal translation of selected passages. The course will satisfy those of you who are seeking to enlarge your vocabulary or the already versed German scholar who wants a "snap" course, but a half-year is about enough...
During the summer months the Maintenance Department has made by while the hot sun shone and among other things installed 101 nice new radiators in Eliot House. Last winter during the could snap there was much complaint among the Elephants of ill-heated rooms due to icy radiators and the Maintenance Department has in the fullness of time takes there strong measures to keep the Pachyderms warm. It has also smiled its paternal smile on the chilly Lowell House men to the tune of 55 radiators...
That night 2,500 citizens of Rochester, which the late George Eastman helped make one of the most civilized communities in the land, gathered around Captain Schultz's ring for the evening performance. The horse & lion act ended. This time "Baby" outsmarted Captain Schultz. One snap and twist of the lion's jaws and the horse crumpled with a raw, red hole gaping in its throat...
Public men in public places frequently make unfortunate remarks. Author Kent likes to snap these up, ring the changes. Once General Johnson permitted himself to turn from excoriating his critics and point with pride to those "whose eyes have seen the glory." And Professor Tugwell rhapsodically prophesied a time when "every hill will be green and all the rivers blue." Old-Fashioned Democrat Kent is waiting for the muddy Missouri to change color...
...waistline, dropping the skirt. "Foundation garments" became a practical necessity. The corset-makers frankly admitted for the first time that women had not one bust but two breasts. Even then corsets were relatively clumsy affairs with elastic threads woven to stretch only in one direction. The elastic lost its snap if a corset lay on a store shelf for any length of time. Perspiration and a few washings had the same effect...