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...announcement made sooner might have avoided much that was unpleasant and unnecessary, but it is not for a mere mortal agency to question the motions of the spheres. The consolation that something is actually to be done effaces some of the scandal even if it does leave the blot of mismanaged press relations still in a conspicuous foreground...
...where such juvenile foolishness has never obtained, but where private enterprise on the part of undergraduates has annually inaugurated minor breaches of the academic peace. Up to four years ago the freshman-sophomore fence rush at Yale was as much of an institution as Derby Day, and the only blot on the otherwise fair record of the class of '26 was its pathetic gesture toward dignity in abolishing it. A few black eyes and a half dozen fist fights usually resulted on these happy occasions, but these could hardly justify the doing away with an event at once picturesque...
That Harvard's got a blot...
When war was declared Graves enlisted almost at once, got a commission in the famed line regiment, Royal Welch Fusiliers, which had fought at Lexington and Bunker Hill: the only blot on its scutcheon was the surrender at Yorktown. In the Royal Welch the atmosphere was much the same as at Charterhouse: the regular officers resented and despised "outsiders." but discipline was perfect, morale high; they were pretty fighters...
...worst joint in Shanghai but who pretends to be refined when she meets a handsome gentleman on a train. The gentleman (James Murray) is a crook who has escaped from a Chinese prison. He copies Nolan's respectable front. Even dull directing, bad dialog and indifferent recording fail to blot out something touching and terrible in their momentary romance. Best shot: tea for two in a Chinese private dining room...