Word: clio
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...That thud you just heard was John Harvard toppling out of his chair," declared Sidney R. Packard, visiting lecturer in History, as Clio, the smiling muse of his calling, gave the old boy a nudge to make way for two more of her sinister...
...Clio, the Muse of History (for it was she), looked up, her finger on her lips. "Shh!" she said, "the Big Three Conference is just ending down there. What with security regulations, censorship and personal secretiveness, the only way I can find out anything these days is by peeping. And who are you?'' she asked, squinting slightly (history is sometimes a little shortsighted). "I've seen you somewhere before...
...anonymous columnist* of the history-loving New York Times had fun last week standing Clio on her head. First, he imagined the No. 1 U.S. Communist answering the same history questions both before and after Hitler attacked Russia...
...Forum, under Chairman John W. Sullivan '43 has been created to provide the student body with well-known speakers on current topics. unlike the Yale Political Forum and the Princeton Whig-Clio, the Harvard Forum entails no formal membership. Its purpose as Chairman Sullivan put it is "to fulfill the need for important speakers on subjects of paramount interest...
Maroon, meanwhile, has Gary-Coopered his way in & out of Clio's boudoir, various gambling halls, and the offices of J. P. Morgan in New York. He runs a first-class Western-style fight against railroad pirates, during which two locomotives collide in a tunnel. He gets back to Saratoga in time to claim his lady at an effectively staged costume ball, and to promise her that he'll make more money than Van Steed ever dreamed...