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...Brody, a retired bachelor transit worker, began three years ago to feed and care for "Timothy," a tan neighborhood stray. Timothy developed home-loving traits, and would curl up comfortably at Mr. Brody's feet on cold autumn night, purring happily. Mr. Brody could not imagine why Timothy vanished two weeks...
...Harvard harriers have not shown to well during the autumn. They are hampered by a lack of depth, and the graduation of three key men from last year. Boston writers had predicted that they would give the Green a fight, and only that...
This fall, Ivy League newspapers have begun to grumble about the fraternity system. Autumn is the rushing season for most fraternities; sophomores wander from house to house, shake hands with prospective brothers, examine the paddles on the wall, and then sit back and wait. At a school like Dartmouth, less than half can reasonably expect to pick lip a pin; at other schools, the proportion may be lower, Ivy newspapers have suddenly started trying to keep the proportion down...
...League fraternities are well entrenched; even opponents admit that the fraternity system has enough attractions to preclude its early demise. But this autumn has produced an unusual flurry of comment and criticism on rushing and pledging and all the other brotherly practices. The Greek temple of the fraternity system still stands, but people are eagerly chipping away at its base...
...roast beef (Flanked by french fries and lime beans). Friday night last, but also came within a G-string of presenting an exhibition on the violin by Phil Isenberg. Isenberg, who specializes in punching people's faces off in the winter and racking up enemy ball-carriers in the autumn, was to have accompanied Rex Johnson, but the tunes which Isenberg and Johnson had came prepared to render were not one. Johnson sang a number popular in 1890, after the football team of that season had defeated Yale for the first time in 14 years. Isenberg removed his violin from...