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...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...er receiving his degree from Williams he at- tended the Columbia School of Architecture and after graduation became a partner in the firm of Squires &... ...undecided, Joeokel will enter., the Harvard law school. Johnson will study architecture at the University of California. Continued in the next isme. M... ...omething about the services in our chapel. We have a building which by its architecture and its associations naturally, and it would seem, should irre... ...ARY 7, 1908 6.00 p. m.—Lecture by M. Luguet on "The Origin, Sur- vival and Renaissance of French Literature," Hoom 4. arlffln Hall. FRroAY, JANUARY 10... ...evival of Latin and Greek classics, wbioh movement in itself was a sort of renaissance. This movement was a sort of con- necting link between the by- ... ... wae pointed out. In the second part of his lecture, M. Lugnat took up the Renaissance proper, treating suo- cossively the court of Francois I, the Pl...

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...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with tho...

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...9 THE HOMESTEAD? A VISITOR ? HALF-CONFIDENCES 59 -- 10 MISTRESS AND MEN, 64 -- 11 OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS ? SNOW? A MEETING, 70 -- 12 FARMERS ? A RULE ? IN EXCEPTION, 75 -- 13 SORTES SANCTORUM ? THE VALENTINE, 79 -- 14 EFFECT OF THE LETTER ? SUNRISE, 83 -- 15 A MORNING MEETING? THE LETTER AGAIN, 87 -- 16 ALL SAINTS? AND ALL SOULS?, 96 -- 17 IN THE MARKET-PLACE, 99 -- 18 BOLDW...

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