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When Abnormal Psychology arrived at Harvard, the idea was entertained that its function was to minister to the undergraduate body; to dissolve its woes and anxieties and appease its truancies, and thus to diminish the incidence of depression and suicide and further sound scholarship. When it was understood that Dr. Shaw of the Department of Hygiene was competently fulfilling this office, black hints were circulated to the effect that the new group was about to conduct a systematic investigation of certain enigmatical obsessions prevalent in the Faculty. This notion was dismissed, however, when the appendage to the department of Psychology...
...United Press despatch from Paris read, last week: "Recent reports from Rumanian sources tell of sinister political efforts to diminish the importance of the 'Boy King' in the eyes of his own people. 'He is not normally developed,' some have said. 'He is deaf, does not know how to talk and stories of his brilliance are all false...
Although the authorities in charge of the Harvard side of the scholastic meet with Yale, in an attempt to diminish the publicity attached to the affair, had decided to withhold the names of the ten men who will compete for Harvard against Yale on April 30, they have now altered their decision of three days ago and are publishing the team in today's CRIMSON...
...most notable thing in connection with the Jubilee held in 1921 by the class of 1924 was the late hour at which it terminated. Not until 3 o'clock did the strains of jazz diminish in the vicinity of the quadrangle and the lights go out. Gore had succeeded in convincing the judges that its vocalists were the better of the interdormitory singers. Next year the class of 1925 again celebrated until the matutinal hour of 3 o'clock, and furthermore supplemented its Jubilee with five acts of vaudeville from the Keith Circuit. No longer was the Jubilee the haunt...
...room window. This was purely metaphorical; the intentions of Mrs. Russell had been confined to a talk on "Should Women Be Protected?" It has been suggested that the figure of President Frank dates from the days when he was an assistant to Billy Sunday, an imputation that does not diminish its illuminating quality...