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...highest bidder as long as there is space left. Others have already ordered our town cars to be boxed up and shipped from Chicago, Philadelphia or New York before the freight trains stop running. . . . But we'll be there, one and all--whether by ox-cart or dirigible, by camel or the Boston Elevated. And when the sun rises in New Jersey on November fifth, it will be shaded by the dust of a caravan from out of the east, more brilliant than any Marco Polo ever encountered on his hike to Cathay...
...other stories among those that deserve the greatest commendation are C. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Camel's Back", Alice Duer Miller's "Slow Poison", L. H. Robbins "Professor Todd's used Car", and "Alma Mater" by O. F. Lewis. The last, as might be supposed from the title, is a college story, a narrative abreast of the progress in American university matters...
...drawing which was chosen for the Pi Eta show poster and which will also be used for the program and score covers was designed by R. Gerould '20, author of the play, and executed by him in collaboration with P. French 2S.L.A. It represents a camel, carrying an Arab girl, approaching a crossing where a member of "Efficiency" Jones' traffic squad manipulates his "Go-Stop" signal. The reproductions in Pi Eta colors, black and white and purple, will be seen in the Harvard square windows tomorrow...
...social prominence, who is put in charge of his employer's pearl fisheries in Arabia. To secure a better hold on his trade he deposes the sheik of the district and sets up a municipal government according to his own ideas--with traffic police for the prevention of camel collision, and bewitching but strike-loving force of stenographers and telephone girls...
...LeRoux has made extensive explorations in Africa; organized the first French camel-corps on the desert of Sahara, and discovered a new tribe in Abyssinia...