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...made the Clubman, old-style, archaic. Diehards who will not follow their more reasonable associates to Eliot and Dunster are responsible for a growing spirit of intolerance which is new to Harvard . . . Anti-pacifism, anti-radicalism, and anti-Semitism all were born in the Clubs . . . And today the best clubmen are virtually indistinguisable from the best non-clubmen." And that is a steinful of Mr. Schlesinger's bucket of home brew...
...team, without substitutes to relieve them, were unable to stand up under the power of fresh Harvard attacks, and the goalie was continually peppered with bullet shots. Dick Claflin, on the other hand, did a good job on the Harvard defensive protecting Ash Emerson from the shots of the clubmen...
Playing the University Club yesterday afternoon on the Linden Street Courts, the Varsity Squash Team A continued their winning streak by downing the Clubmen five...
...three years in the White House he was still the master stumpster of 1932 who could sway a crowd or a country with his vibrant voice, his buoyant words. He denounced Republican prosperity; he mocked Herbert Hoover (without naming him); he had at his old enemies, the bankers, rich clubmen, budget balancers and the Cassandras of national insolvency; he skipped his failures, harped on his successes; he made hopeful headlines about declining expenditures hereafter. And above all he seemed to have a thoroughly good time. Excerpts from his speech: "I am happy to be in Georgia. I am proud...
...cotton would be selling at today if during these past three years we had continued to produce 15 or 16 or 17 million bales each year, adding to our own surplus, adding to the world surplus, and driving the cotton farmers of the South into bankruptcy and starvation. Suffering Clubmen. "I can realize that gentlemen in well-warmed and well-stocked clubs will discourse on the expenses of government and the suffering that they are going through because the Government is spending money for work relief. I wish I could take some of these men out on the battle line...