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Princeton, N. J., March 15--Though Harvard, Yale, and Columbia have all refused a bequest of $25,000 each for lectures on women in public affairs, Princeton still has half that amount on its hands because it agreed to accept the gift. The grant was made in the will of the late Albert E. Pillsbury, former attorney-general of Massachusetts, who believed "that the modern feminist movement tends to take woman out of the home and put her into politics government, or business, and that this has already begun to impair the family as the basis of civilization...
...plots of Squire Cribbs (snarled by James Wood from behind the blackest of moustaches) come to early fruition as the supple husband is delivered into the power of Demon Rum. Lower and lower sinks our here until the very meanest of New York's gutters will no longer accept his drink-rotted carcass. Honest Will Dowton sticks by him and appears at opportune moments to save him from the prison cell toward which the wretch of a Squire is directing his staggering steps. Will has a half-witted sister (played by a well-known campus character under the Puritan alias...
Obviously the right of disagreement, which is exercised by the editors of the "Student News," extends also to its readers. Those who assume that Harvard students "en masse" will accept the Marxist doctrine under the stimulus of four pages of weekly propaganda simply question the validity of individual judgment and therefore the theory of Democracy--in short, they state a belief that would be far more acceptable to Josef Stalin or Benito Mussolini than to Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln...
...Athletic Committee has met and swimming is abolished. Although we are sorry to see swimming removed from the list of winter sports, we are compelled to accept the decision of the Committee as wise. We have long dwelt on the fact that there is no suitable swimming tank in Cambridge and as a result our teams have not been properly trained or conditioned when they have entered contests. It is, furthermore, true that the inadequate facilities necessitate an undue amount of travelling...
Judge Emil Fuchs: . . . The generosity of Colonel Ruppert enables me to accept the attractive offer and opportunity of the Boston Braves as contained in your kind letter of Feb. 23. . . . Wholeheartedly I return home again to Boston and New England to complete my life's job among friends. . . . Mrs. Ruth and our daughter join me in the expression of our joy in again being with the kindly and fair people of Boston and its surroundings. I am mindful of the great battle and sacrifice you have made to give Boston a good ball club and a winner. I shall...