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...illness grew fast. At last, after separation from Fanny in which he tor tured himself and her with jealous suspicions,* his friend Severn took him to Italy, nursed him through his last weeks. Wrote Severn: "He says words that tear out my heartstrings, 'Why is this ... I can't understand this' ? and then his chattering teeth." Keats died...
...French," continued M. Moukbil, "we like them very much; we are more of the same temperament and I think they understand us better--but even they, of course, are not entirely non-imperialistic...
Regretting the misconceptions and misunderstandings that Americans apparently have in regard to Turkey, M. Moukbil expressed his hope that the students in the universities, and especially in Harvard, would try a little to understand the new Turkey...
...play, he had little comment; but when he saw the film version of Recompense, he said that he saw no reason why he should not write a new novel based on the film. What Price Glory impressed him very much, although he found the slang difficult to understand, particularly that used by the Marines. The liberality of the Manhattan theatre he found impressive for he, perhaps naturally, has no sympathy with censorship. Ah well, no more have I; but I must confess that when one goes to a first night these days, it is a bit dangerous to take...
...providing some sad food for thought to the Senior class in Harvard. To all intents and purposes, the class of 1925 individually and collectively, are busied with accumulating the intellectual riff-raff of four years of study in the different fields of concentration. Actually, if our mentors would but understand us, there is going on in the "divided psyches" of these young men, thinking which is far afield from these supposed endeavors. Your Senior, if at all given to thinking, is already chafing under the hard task-master, the May examinations. He remembers that some of Harvard's finest "illustri...