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...never returned, in a wild west show at the Chicago World's Fair, lionized by the young society matrons, and swilling down cocktails with the best of them. Hearing that his father is hill, and being temporarily fed up with his play boy existence, he jumps into his special custom model roadster, and sets out for the reservation. When he arrives there finding his father dying, unattended by the government doctor, and discovering the graft-ridden administration makes him burn for revenge, and when his sister is raped by the funeral director during his father's burial service, he sets...
...Knock on Wood", a musical comedy in three acts by Graham MacLeod '32, will be presented by the Pi Eta Club of Harvard on March 22 and 23 at the club theatre at 1 Winthrop Square. Following a custom of over half a century, all the music, lyrics, and designs have been originated by the members of the club, and both the masculine and feminine parts will be portrayed by undergraduates...
...Dean's office will demand that assurances be given on these matters. In accordance with official custom in such an affair it may go even farther and put a stop to the whole thing. The former would be an obvious duty; the latter would be a grave mistake. For, let there be no misunderstanding, any sincere and scientific investigation of this kind merits support as a courageous effort to supply data on an important subject which has been needlessly and unintelligently obscured. All that any sensible man can ask is that there be certain definite evidence of responsibility. It would...
...comer. The name of Harvard, many feel, is no longer alone adequate to attract a scholar. More tangible recognition of his worth must be offered to bring even very small mountains to our Mohammed. For many years feeling has run high against the age-old Harvard custom of promotions on the basis of academic seniority. In the past, slow indeed has been the rise to fame of the young mind. He has had to wade patiently through a series of one and three year appointments before he may grace the ranks of even the assistant professors...
...different field, a field which will benefit his pupils, and a field which after all is the essence of true education. Be is the man who has been devoting time and effort to his tutorial and teaching work, and upon this basis he should be rewarded. Usual Harvard custom decrees that scholarship be the basis of promotion, and this custom should continue so to decree. But can there not be a new interpretation given to this word? Is not active time and interest with tutorial work indeed a form of scholarship...