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Harvard Square will be treated to a delightfully archaic sight this afternoon, when at two o'clock precisely, especially privileged members of the Harvard Dramatic Club will climb aboard a chariot lent them by the Classical Club, and gallop off for the Repertory Theatre...
...some 25 years ago, dared his confrères to copy it. In addition to freakish specialties like milking wild cows, last week's world series rodeo included also a mounted basketball game, in which a team of cowboys challenged all-comers; performances by stunt horses; a juvenile chariot race; singing of hillbilly songs rarely heard except by radio west of the Hudson River...
...trying to keep people off the grass. Spokesmen for the University team announced with glee that they expected a much larger haul tonight and the CRIMSON has found out through its own devious sources that Cambridge police are already entering the game since the Yard Cops, chasing the student chariot off University property, makes it a cinch for local flatfoots to pick them up on municipal byways. This makes the already uneven struggle oven more unfair and will eventually end by forcing the poor car-owning student into the greedy toils of the many garage owners about the square...
...which surrounds the "boy who made good." The crowd which has long clamored for the return and quick imprisonment of its runaway utilities magnate, has failed to re-elect the State's attorney who brought him back. There was certainly no triumphal return, with Samuel Insull dragging behind a chariot, nor was there an angry crowd at the station or the jail. The general notion is that Mr. Insull is a poor, infirm old fugitive whom the law is making into a scapegoat. Pity wells up all over the Windy City. Yet it was Chicago, not the law, which made...
...Baltimoreans, Pianist Emmanuel Wad and Playwright Elmer Greensfelder, wrote Swing Low. The title refers not to the hanging but to the recurrence of the spiritual ''Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" which impressed the audience as being the finest bit of music in the opera...