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When a participant in a serious controversy resorts to cheap clap-trap for arguments and indulges in provocative diatribes, it is about time to wind it up. After the following brief comment I withdraw from the field, leaving it entirely to my opponent, if he chooses to further acquaint the readers of CRIMSON with the latest communistic anti-Gandhi invectives...
...rival suitors, hidden in the shrubbery, made vulgar noises with wind instruments, unhitched the Harvard boys' horses so that the Glee Club had to walk back to Cambridge. During the next 25 years there was another short-lived Glee Club; then a third which was organized "to acquaint the College with good choral music." Last week in Cambridge this Glee Club, in white ties and tail coats, gave a birthday concert which would have taxed the most experienced of choristers...
...Lowell House, will leave tomorrow night on a lecture tour which will take him to Harvard clubs in eight principal cities of the West and Middle West; the tour is part of the annual program of the Speakers Committee of the Harvard Alumni Association, which is attempting to acquaint alumni all over the country with recent developments at Harvard by conducting a series of nation-wide lectures; this year, these are to be given by President Lowell and twelve other officers of the University during the next two months...
...between the Corporation and the Overseers, and between the Corporation and the Faculties; to make an annual report to the Overseers on the general condition of the University; to preside on public academic days; to preside over the several Faculties; to direct the official correspondence of the University; to acquaint himself with the state, interests and wants of the whole institution; and to exercise a general superintendence over all its concerns. For the better discharge of these duties, he must live in Cambridge...
...renewed and stronger effort that the people may fully understand the issues at stake. We have known all along that, owing to the ravages of the world depression, our fight is a hard one; but we have a strong case and a right cause. Our task is to acquaint every man and woman in the country with the facts. . . . My chief concern now is that the work of reconstruction shall go forward. . . . This transcends all personal or partisan considerations...