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...Union clock is at least two minutes ahead of all other University clocks, and at least five minutes ahead of Eastern Standard Time. A cute little rope is stretched across the entrance to the dining hall. In front of the little rope stands that imposing personage, Miss Murray. Cerberus-like, she prevents us poor mortals from passing through the sacred adit...
...hound which Shakespeare held, the fear and contempt which the beast inspired in the ancients; those who have no knowledge of the creature's filthy ways have idealized it as did Barrle in Wendy's Nana; those who tread in false fear or forbidden paths see a Cerberus in every canine form. But men who own dogs, not for breeding and selling, nor for hunting or house-watching, but for the idle pleasure which the ownership affords, know the pet, not as from Hell, nor yet as Rin-Tin-Tin, but in the full measure of what it is worth...
...introduction of the Turnstile Idea to keep Widener Library intact has finally taken place. The machinery has been installed and Cerberus is at the gate. For Harvard's light-fingered and absent-minded the inscription on the high facade reads: "Lose all hope who enter here." The open season for books is no more. Even should the conscientious objector escape through a back window and, disguised as a bricklayer, lose himself in the traffic of Massachusetts Avenue, the fear of the law would haunt his sleep, the imaginary hand, would forever be reaching for his shoulder...
Fewer air accidents, in proportion to the number of planes flown, are happening. Last week the Department of Commerce, kindly Cerberus of U.S. aviation, issued its periodic statistics...
...tiny bit of pig skin move back and forth in the zig zag of modern football remain among the few stalwart pleasures of modern life. And when those who do the zig zaggling represent Yale and Harvard the journey of the Ten Thousand is purely a Fighteous crusade and Cerberus not half the monster that he might be longjours landace pour le sport...