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...writing, supported by half-a-dozen other aspersions almost made us believe that there was in fact no longer a cult of authorship in the University. This year such incidents as the publication of "Eight More Harvard Poets" restore some of our confidence, and makes the Yale-and-Football bogey seem a pale ghost. Sixteen poets worthy of the title in the few years since the War would be a respectable garner in itself: and these collections make no pretense to all-inclusiveness...
...area basis of developing city transit had been followed from the beginning, many of the most objectionable features of city life would not exist today. Population congestion, housing congestion, business congestion, manufacturing congestion, amusement congestion, and the great bogey of our transit problem--the rush hour congestion, all would be reduced to a minimum or eliminated. Everybody would be more comfortable, healthier and happier. Our people would not be living so much in layers. Instead most people would be in their own homes spread out through the open country, thus making living conditions more ideal
...bogey. Tradition, is the only obstacle to making definite arrangements for a game at Chicago. Such a contest would be greatly to Harvard's advantage: the University's stock there is at present very low partly because of its attitude which is often taken for aloofness and partly because of the old superstition of Harvard snobbishness. The game at Los Angeles two years ago created just the favorable impression which needs to be stimulated in the Middle West. Let us have Illinois on our schedule next year...
Once more the bogey of German dye competition stares us in the face. During the past year the Germans have turned out 145,000 tons of dye-stuffs, 10,000 tons more than in any previous twelve months. Production is further expanding at the rate of 15,000 tons per annum, and the manufacturers are planning an intensive campaign for the conquest of the British and American markets. Before the War, German competition had completely ruined our native dye industry; it looks now as if it were about to do so again...
...taking out insurance, called the "pussyfoot policies." What a delightful thought. The home of "Irish," of "Scotch," and of ale--and the freeborn natives scared silly lost they be deprived of their inalienable privilege of getting drunk on Saturday night. Never fear, John Bull! Even if the "dry" Bogey-man does get you, it is only half an hour by air from Dover to Calais. And we venture to suggest that France will remain wet, until William Anderson has cut down the last grape vine, and the last yeast bacterium has turned up its toes and died...