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Navy men have apparently reached the status of conservative and trustworthy individuals. Some well-intentioned lady started the Navy office the other day by asking if there were any officers that would care to mind babies at night of course she would pay them. Veoman Brill, after a hurried conference with Ensign Coffee, thanked the lady very much and told her that we were rather busy most nights. Relax fellows. They were actually infants...
...open letter to Mr. Brill...
...seems too bad that all of your love life is centered around Widener. You're quite a simple case, Mr. Brill. The bitter pangs of love with some girl from across the Common are still poisoning your perspective. Just what do you expect for your tuition? Iva Poitrine...
...devour its master and creator. Tell the man whose house is on fire to be calm, but urge not temperance on me while this grief blot still remains on the Harvard escutcheon! I demand the immediate suppression of the R----e Table on the grounds of indecency. R. Llewelyn Brill...
...England long since gone to seed, John Phillips Marquand writes with affectionate malice. The Late George Apley (1937) was a full-length portrait of a Boston Brahmin who was left like Old North Church amid a new environment. Wickford Point (1939) examined the Brill family who made up for their lack of money, brains or usefulness with proud descent from a minor contemporary of Emerson and H. D. Thoreau. Last week, in H. M. Pulham, Esquire, Marquand wryly celebrated his Harvard class of 1915 and its type of New England gentleman...