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...about this time of the year that the University authorities begin to wonder about the amount of spare window glass in and around New Haven. As the temperature descends, so, sooner or later, the snow is bound to descend with it. And THEN snowballs...
...Machu Picchu in a hitherto inaccessible region of the Peruvian Andes. We have not space here to explain the archaeological significance of this discovery. Suffice it to say that the city of Machu Picchu was believed to have been the cradle of the ancient Inca empire, Tampu-Tocco, or "Window-Tavern". What is of most interest to us is that Dr. Bingham, at that time, conjectured that the Urubamba canyon, near which is the narrow ridge whereon Machu Picchu is situated, might be a rich field for explorers and regretted that he had not the resources to continue his excavations...
...shop littered with partly finished violins. The Dramatic Club's property department has obtained from Mr. Adolph Oettinger, a collector of mediaeval stringed instruments, a number of valuable violins, 'cellos, other Stringed instruments, and instrument cases, all antiques. The walls of the shop are very massive, and a large window at the back of the stage overlooks a street and a "piazza" in Cremona...
There is a French proverb which says you cannot both join in a procession and look out of the window. But two weeks ago when the band was parading through the Yard, recruiting for the march to the Stadium before the Princeton game, there were some undergraduates who seemed unable to decide which was the better course. In the end, a considerable number were satisfied with leaning their shirt-sleeved elbows on the window-sill--and looking on. No matter what is going on, there are always watchers from the window--and there will be some this afternoon when...
...Violins of Cremona" represents the interior of a violin shop in Italy in 1750, the color scheme being chiefly red and brown. The walls are very massive, and at the back of the stage a large shop window looks out on a street in Cremona with a "piazza" beyond...