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...friends. It is her whole mission in life to pour out her blessings on us, and we as grateful children, can do no less than hold up and strengthen her hands, thus emulating the example of her friends outside, who have of late showered her with gifts in so splendid and thoughtful a fashion...
...should like to suggest that Seniors wearing caps and gowns should make a point of bowing to one another. If wearing caps and gowns is good for anything at all, it ought to give the men in the class a chance to become better acquainted. This is a splendid chance to drop all unnecessary formality. J. LAWRENCE...
...Peithetairos departs with the Gods to receive his bride and sceptre. Here follows a choral passage, and then appears a messenger from Zeus, who announces the approach of the wedding company. Peithetairos enters, dressed like Zeus, carrying his sceptre and with his bride at his side, and receives a splendid choral greeting. Having gained his part of the agreement he declares his intention of aiding the Gods. The scene closes with a spirited wedding song, during which the characters and choruses leave the stage...
...said that this will cramp the suitable administration of the Union. The answer is that the Union is intended to serve all Harvard men, and that doing one's duty in a plain manner, -- even frugally if necessary--is better than the splendid doing of something else. That is clear as to individuals; to the uninitiated it seems equally true of a social club...
...Stevenson's artistic and literary ideas may not have been original, and may even be, as Mr. Chapman believes, too fragile and ephemeral to endure; but Stevenson's character was unique, and the remembrance and the influence of it will be enduring. "Sick and well I have had a splendid life," he wrote, not long before his death...