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Another playlet, but of a different character, is "Hard-Boiled Hampton," in which Harry Holman takes the part of the austere but really soft-hearted business man. The play is rather sentimental, but it is kept from being overdone by a saving touch of humor. The three parts are excellently taken...
...yellows predominating. Bright tiling is much in evidence, the squares being made up of vivid reds, blues, yellows, and blacks. The result is striking but at the same time one wonders how so many strong colors could have been used and yet have the general effect so uniformly soft...
...dash in 10 seconds and the 220 in 22 2-5 seconds. H. C. Emery of Exeter was the high point scorer of the meet, totalling 13 points by taking first places in the hammer-throw and shot-put and second in the high-hurdles. The track was quite soft and the field events were held under severe difficulties, for the ground was extremely muddy, making good take-offs practically impossible...
...South Seas--and wrote "Typee." Days of the fear of sudden death; days of drowsy, warm forgetfulness; dark seas curling over glistening sands; amber sun-light through the palm-fronds, caressing the face of tough old chief, or wrinkled medicine-man, or startling the shadows from the soft eyes of Fayaway...
Instead of the clinking of glasses, there is the clicking of chips. The pleasant gurgle of heavenly liquids gives way to a soft chant of "come 'leven" and rumbling of ivory over wood. Pay nineteen! We wonder if this change has been all for the good. This new method of removing undergraduate inhibitions has certain disadvantages over the old. "A big head is better than an empty purse" is attributed to Epictetus. The road to freedom from the worries of exams and cuts is much smoother when it runs through fragrant vineyards than when it winds across the chequered fields...