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...closing week any number of bishops and leaders of prohibition- supporting societies declared their faith in prohibition. Mayor Dever rushed down from Chicago to deny testimony given by a Federal attorney that Chicago was full of bootlegging and to wipe out "a blot on the fair name of his city." Even some Yale students were called to testify to the result of a vote taken in the University in which students and faculty voted 4 to 1 for modification of prohibition, and declared that students got just as much liquor now as ever before. Professor Irving Fisher of the University...
...Such obvious decadence of discretion is incredible. As President Pringle himself remarked on reading the number. "I do not understand this at all." We do not understand it either. The police have good reason to complain. But better days may come, corruption may breed incoruption and Brockton clear this blot from its shield. In the meantime the Blimp must do its best to correct its fault by a real, clean, good number...
...Storey has written a number of books and recently, in collaboration with M. P. Lichauce '23, he published a book entitled "The Conquest of the Philippines by the United States, 1898-1925." In this book Mr. Storey paints the treatment of the Philippines as something of a blot upon the good name of the United States, and points out clearly who the statesmen were to whom the responsibility for our Philippine policy must be chiefly ascribed...
...with a crimson "H". The three things which Bobbie particularly liked were Audrey Parker, football, and a much used grimy pipe." Here, gentlemen, is also revealed, though I might let you guess--the eternal triangle. Evidently longevity is promised Audrey as well as football. But such minor errors cannot blot the heroic vigor of the plot structure. That Bobbie did not bother with the freshman team matters very little. Revere artists like Lillian are often careless of detail (Ed. note. This means nothing?) But, as I said of moral turpitude or was it colds--what...
...cover is appropriate and wholly admirable (although not the equal of the George Washington picture of last spring) and shows Lampy acknowledging the greetings of the world upon the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. A cake illuminated by fifty (count them) candles stands appropriately in the foreground and the Blot peers hungrily from an upper window...