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...could not be ascertained last night what action would be taken against the alleged window and light smashers, but it is hardly to be expected that the operators of the subway will not seek some satisfaction for the damage suffered by their property...
...connection between the War and the new era in Russia than this story of how a shell-shocked soldier reclaims his life. Bearded Fedor Nikitin as Sergeant Filimonov loses his memory for four years and gets it back when he sees his wife's face at a train window. In a moment of anguish everything he had forgotten floods through his mind. He leaves the country station where he has been doing odd jobs, goes back to Moscow to take up life again. More than half the picture deals with his efforts to understand the new times. Fragment...
Generations of Harvard men have wiped the dust from the platform of the New Lecture Hall and from the window recesses of Harvard 6 with their head gear. The venerable Stetson has sheltered many a worried head from the wintry blast along the Charles and has served in summer time as the proverbial boat-bailer. Stretched to twice its circumference or crunched into a pocket, it has come out smiling--resuming its shapeless shape with a tacit invitation for more mistreatment. In short, the "Harvard hat" has become renowned almost as much for its versatility as for its nonchalant appearance...
...that about 1900 an eccentric fellow named Rinehart moved into Gray's Hall and that he became a friendless and lonely student. He envied the other fellows whose friends were always yelling up at their rooms and (so the story went) he took to standing below his own window and singing out his own name in a sad pretence that he was popular too. Other students took up the oft reiterated call, shouted it back and forth, and finally it became a byword for Harvard men--like the "Hello Bill" of the Elks, but more high-toned...
...hart!" in a hoarse bass voice, and kept up the cry for many minutes. Other boys were calling other friends from the Yard, as he was, but there was something in the pitch and the volume of the voice which attracted attention. Someone in derision mocked it from a window and in a few minutes "O R-i-i-ne-hart!" was being bellowed back and forth from a score or two throats. The next night cry was taken up again, and on the next night, and thereafter; and now thirty years later it still is shouted and probably always...