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...HARVARD SERVICE NEWS invites all undergraduates and V-12 students in any class who missed the boat last week to enter its new shorter, stream-lined competition for all boards tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock in the CRIMSON building, the red-brick house on the one-way cow path, 14 Plympton Street. The competition will be designed to find men really interested in putting out a paper in a time when its services, we believe, are more needed than ever before...
...cowman's contemptuous word for oleomargarine is bull butter. Last fall the Iowa Farm Bureau, to whom the cow is sacred, got Iowa State College to suppress a scientific pamphlet praising bull butter as a wartime labor saver (TIME, Oct. 11). Whereupon Professor Theodore Schultz, head of the college's famed, farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed...
...slickers who follow the trade have developed a lingo all their own. One who points the game is a bird dog. The prospect is a sucker or a mooch. An advance man who attracts the mooch is a bell cow. The man who makes the sale is a loader. The smoothie who takes the sucker a second time is the reloader. Foxes are those who sell by mail; the dynamiter works by telephone. An argument for a difficult prospect is the Russian Injection...
...farmer, Robert Goodall, also ran. He wanted to know if Lord Hartington could milk a cow. The Marquess replied: "Yes, and I can spread muck [manure]." He thereupon ignored Goodall, challenged White to a muck-spreading contest for a ?5 bet, winnings to the Red Cross. White was too busy making speeches...
...Student's Club. If it's boogie-woogie or live you want, your champion will be Bob Norris of the Midshipmen-Officers' School. If your tastes run along sweet or semi-classical lines, Dick Hucks of the junior class will hold forth. Their common meeting ground is the "Cow-Cow Boogie"; after that it's every man for himself...