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Acting upon the gentlest hints from undergraduates, and in full accord with the spirit of the House Plan, the tutors in Eliot House have doubtless decided by this time to give over the daily tutors table. To date, however, they have shown a commendable horror of backslapping and mere vulgar companionability, and a tendency to Fabian tactics in making their reform. Obviously haste would be most undesirable when dealing with so old a tradition as the tutorial table of Eliot House. There is a widespread feeling among the students, however, that it would be very nice if by Thanksgiving Dinner...
...aside from all possible ulterior motives, Mr. La Guardia's desertion of the toastmaster's pedestal is admirably in accord with the times. It represents the banishment to triviality of a function which his forerunners have allowed to assume undue proportion. Having withdrawn as a public entertainer, Mayor-elect La Guardia may perhaps conduct a regime noted for something more substantial than the well-fitting tuxedo and elegant bon mots of its leader...
...view of this, the attitude of the American press fails to achieve the dignity of a crusade against oppression. It is simply in accord with the weak and vacillating policy, following the mob rather than leading it, which characterizes American journalism in times of great crisis. Perhaps the NRA may succeed; perhaps it may fail. Until something definite happens, however, editorial pens will shake warily with every tremor of public opinion, and, like the biblical character, blow neither hot nor cold...
...still a football crowd does not form quite the appropriate audience for such ceremonies. It is more fitting that the anniversary be observed, as is to be done, by a special service in the quiet of the Chapel, Saturday morning. The one minute of reverent silence seems to accord better with these precincts than with the heated enthusiasm of football fans...
Because thy ways are little in accord...