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...honors will be available to all. The new plan was lavishly saluted during the centenary celebrations last week, notably by Dr. William Wistar Comfort, president of Haverford since 1917, a genial, highbrowed classicist and cricket-player whom the students call "Uncle Billy" and whose precept has been: "Improve the breed of college men by a selective process...
...ever was when it raised up indignant and sounding protest a year ago. It entails inconvenience and continual hurry for those who cannot do without the reading rooms, and smothers all enthusiasm for doing optional work in them, an enthusiasm which Widener's neo-classic dinginess does not breed very readily in any case. In order to make the use of the Harvard Library a civilized convenience and not a painful duty for the undergraduate, it should be kept open from nine till eleven, every day, just as the House libraries are. In the matter of the overnight privilege...
...Picture the cancerous growth of modern infidelity as ego-complexed pulpiteers, disguising the breed of the wolf beneath silk cassocks and lacy chasubles, masquerade in imposing processions within high vaulted Gothic cathedrals, built with the superfluous millions of American plutocrats. . . . Think of the brilliant agnostics who read from the Scriptures with crossed thumbs, tongues in the cheek, and mental reservations, who place the Bible on the one level with heathen philosophies. . . . Think of the smooth, oily surrender of the deity of our Savior ... I still repeat the cry, 'BACK TO LUTHER...
...spotted him right away. "How long have you been here? A week! No honest man would answer in that way. He would say 'One week,' or he might say seven days, but not 'A week.' By God. you are not the first of your breed to sneak in here, and you can't deceive me; I knew you at a glance. You're a Jesuit. Get out, you scoundrel, before I do you an injury. Report to those who sent you that I can detect a Jesuit at sight, however disguised." Once, suspecting...
...cage with Kitty, a female rattler. Last fortnight appeared the results of Curator Wiley's kind treatment-ten baby rattlesnakes, of which four survived. As far as records show, no one else has ever succeeded in what she had now accomplished for the third time-getting rattlesnakes to breed in captivity. Curator Wiley never removes the fangs from her rattlers, ascribes her success in handling them to kindness. She likes to have one coiled in her lap "like a contented old cat" while she sews...