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...have no figures referring to the percentage of Harvard youths who attend the greater part to Boston's deb functions. But some of us, being of that lightly-named group called debs, ourselves, we know that it is large. The CRIMSON's attitude is no more comforting than the "Tatler's" ridiculous rating of debs for their popularity and family. The one can be overlooked as the attempt at sensation by a journalistic outsider. The other strikes a little closer home as the padded brick of some with whom we profess acquaintance...
...there is in a name" is still highly problematical. It's just possible that the disappointed will get a job, while the well-advertised should find little difficulty in hooking a fish without going through the formality of going fishing. The net result would be a solution of the deb problem for the current season, though there is a feeling that it would take more than one such solution to lay the ghost of the deb business permanently...
Engaged. Frederick Roberts Rinehart, youngest (third) son of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart ("K," Bab-A Sub-Deb, Tish-); and Miss Elizabeth Sherwood; at Geneva...
...known that the presence of several thousand female students at the University of Michigan is the greatest factor differentiating it from Harvard. For there is endless social life within the college. Whereas Harvard men get much of their excitement from rushing in to Boston, and attending the "deb" dances, the Wolverine undergraduate stays at home...
Heartbreaking and poignant, no less. The glittering society miss pays dearly for her glitter. And the very inevitability of it all, the irresistability of the awful doom is what strikes you. We all know how much the debs would prefer to be educated, instead of just cultured, how much they'd give for an evening with Spinoza or Kant, or one at a concert or a less stylish but heavier play. Picture the deb, with all these thwarted intellectual desires--dancing, dancing her life away, and all because the omnipotent Moloch makes it clear that...