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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CRIMSON candidacy does not prevent a man from being academically or athletically active and sound. It drains not on the time now spent on these pursuits but rather on the mass of time that is now being wasted. It teaches, in addition to a firm grasp of English and correct and clear grammar, the ability to see what goes on, to diagnose what happens, to think accurately, in order to get the facts well set in mind, and the absolutely unguided use of initiative in asking pertinent questions...
...that the vaporings of an uninformed mind should be dignified by the majesty of print; but since this has occurred in the mail of Tuesday's CRIMSON, it is fitting that that gentleman should have been given the opportunity of enlightening himself, and that this letter should endeavor to correct out erroneous impression gathered by the readers of yesterday's CRIMSON...
...teats, will amuse farm-raised TiME-readers-perhaps a more numerous section than you suspect. For the benefit of TIME'S editors: a cow has but one udder, the gland which secretes milk. The appendages on each quarter, from which the milk is drawn, are correctly known as teats- inelegantly but rather universally pronounced "tits," Mr. Webster to the contrary notwithstanding. I hope no newborn delicacy prompted TIME'S lapse from the correct biological description...
...their investment. "Surely it is a sad thing," cried Sir John, "if something economical in its information [the prospectus] is to be declared a falsehood. . . . Every word, every figure in the prospectus was accurate. . . . The average of ten years earnings by the Royal Mail which it contained was absolutely correct...
...last week, left him overnight an established orchestral conductor. The Hungarian dentist had been to hear famed Jeno Hubay, decided that he wanted a son named Jeno who would also play the violin. The son was born with a prodigious talent for music, at 4 was able to correct an experienced virtuoso for playing an F sharp instead of an F natural, at 7 was playing in public...