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Yale's stormy petrels, whose shrill cries have lately uncovered many sins, have been busy unearthing new terrors beneath Harkness Gothicana. One of the latest skeletons in the new cupboard is traditional "Tap Day" which for some time has been the occasional target of campus with as well as of crusading journalism of both conservative and radical timbre. "The Alumni Weekly" demanding a new society system based on the new housing conditions strikes at the method of soliciting membership as being the most demoralizing of the old ways. "The Harkness Boot" printed an article entitled "The Elks in Our Midst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IT'S A WISE CHILD | 5/15/1931 | See Source »

...than the dole" would have been a system of employing the unemployed on public works. "I be-lieve," he proclaimed, "that there is no justice in allowing even one man to starve through no fault of his own while there is a crust to spare in the nation's cupboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pocket Wildcat; Mother Hubbard | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...Mother MacDonald. Rather more anxious than Old Mother Hubbard was James Ramsay MacDonald last week, for the dogs of unemployment were baying louder than usual, and in the nation's cupboard were few bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pocket Wildcat; Mother Hubbard | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Government Solidarity. No less confident and popular in its territory seemed the government at Rio. Vandyke-bearded President Washington Luis who will be 60 next week, denounced the revolutionaries as senseless bloodspillers, calmed local misgivings as to the food supply by stating that Rio has in her cupboard enough to eat until the middle of November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: North & South v. Centre | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...small child, Ben was "courageous, active and clever, rather than firm in his principles." He once amused his father by advising him to cut out the blessing before meals, instead to bless the pantry cupboard once for all and thus save valuable time. Though he was destined for the ministry, after two years' schooling his father realized that Ben would do better in trade, took him out of school, made him assist in the family candle-shop. When Ben was twelve he was made apprentice to his older brother James, a printer; soon he was contributing anonymous articles, signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World Citizen | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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