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Early yesterday morning, the building housing the Caustic-Claflin Press and the MacNamee Bindery was completely destroyed by fire. A disaster striking as near home as this calls to mind as strongly as anything could the two admirable fire-traps in the Yard. Harvard Hall undoubtedly should take first prize. Sever deserves a rather poor second...
...caustic" conclusion to the letter. Do the writers mean that some candidate for a class office actually refused to speak to one of their ac uaintances? It is within the realm of possibility that the candidate did not know him; if so he can hardly be accused of refusing to speak...
...further remark which may appear too caustic, but which, unfortunately, many of us have heard too often. This morning, after reading the Crimson's columns condemning our class indifference we asked several men why they had not voted. Here was their common reply...
...been abhorrent to the cultured mind. But within a decade or two there has come a distinct change. "During the past few years," says the latest Saturday Evening Post, "the colleges have been swelling their catalogues by the addition of so many new groups of vocational studies that a caustic Frenchman who has lately been studying our educational system was led to observe that 'In America you have schools for everything except learning...
...especially fast design with the intention of carrying off the International Fishing Boat trophy next summer, when the ships from Lunenburg and Gloucester again compete, has aroused, a storm of quite justified indignation in Canadian ports. The Halifax "Herald" which originally gave the trophy, conveys in an especially caustic editorial, the sentiments held by all lovers of fair play on both sides of the border. The cup was offered for bona-fide fishing vessels only and the races were to be sailed in whatever weather Dame Fortune saw fit to provide at the time scheduled for the race. Special hulls...