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Swanny's Good Food has been doing a rush business between 12 and 2 o'clock. Undergraduates descend on the establishment at midnight and, ignoring juke box and waitresses, gobble a snack and leave. Joe, who forgot his last name years ago, waxed philosophical over the good business with "students can't live on print alone, and I'm glad they...
...centuries, long before Hinduism, which gradually assimilated her. A few years after the Prophet Mohamed sent Islam forth to conquer the world, Moslems appeared in India. After the 11th Century they were masters, sometimes in fact but more often in name, of the subcontinent. Some Moslems in India today descend from the conquerors; more are the children of Islam's vigorous proselytizing, and none the less fanatical for that...
...been and is a great and ancient land, a wellspring and tabernacle of some of the most inspired conceptions of the divine will in man which man has ever dreamed of; and more lately a fount of brotherhood and, among the nations, a preacher of peace. If India could descend to the depths, it could also look up to moral Himalayas. Its recent sin was great, but not unique, especially not unique in origin. It sprang from Kali, from the dark and universal fear which rests in the slime on the blind sea-bottom of biology...
Cabot Hall residents discovered Perry threading his way along a third-floor ledge at 1 o'clock yesterday morning, allegedly in an intoxicated condition. Cambridge police persuaded him to leave his perch and a crowd of about 100 girls watched him descend the adjacent fire escape, which he had apparently used to get to the ledge...
Upwards of 60 thin-clad soccer players descend every afternoon on the Business School Field and in amongst them Coach James MacDonald is building a team with a scoring punch. With the largest soccer squad in Harvard history Mac is having his troubles but spirit is not one of them...