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...great majority of undergraduates and graduates? We conceal our disappointment under praises of the "splendid showing," and as a result each year is a repetition of the last and we have the not altogether enviable reputation of being "gentlemanly losers." Is it not time to throw aside the thin veil of easy-going optimism and to make it clearly known that nothing short of oft-repeated victories will give us cause for satisfaction...
Following is a list of the gifts: a votive head of terra-cotta from Veil, presented by Professor J. M. Paton; a large terra-cotta Roman lamp, presented by Mrs. Schuyler Rensselaer, of New York; a model of a Roman bit, presented by R. W. Lee '04; a small collection of amphora handles, terra-cotta ex-votos and brick-stamps from the neighborhood of Rome, presented by Dr. A. S. Pease...
...colossal figure exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901. Kronos is represented with out-stretched wings, symbolic of the apparently swift flight of time, but standing on the back of a turtle, as significant of its slow progress. The face is covered with a veil, emblematic of mystery...
...stilted. "Over There" is a pleasantly told episode. "The Lamentable Case of Churchill the Climber" is an excursion into a comparatively fresh field--a genial, well-written history of an unattractive man who is devoured by desire to get social recognition in college: the writer in passing lifts the veil discreetly from the editorial sanctum. "The Fragment" is vivid and vague. The second of the "Travel Papers of Arminius" is a study of Naples with its dirt and noise and charm--an attempt to grasp the soul of the city, necessarily a partial description, but interesting. The number is rich...
...Verschleierte Bild zu Sais" is the story of a youth who, desirous of knowledge, goes to Sais to absorb the learning of the Egyptians. The priests take him to a picture of Truth, covered by a veil which has never been lifted. At night the youth lifts the veil. What he sees is never told. All he says is, "Pity those who reach truth through some transgression; it will never be a pleasure to them...