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...hand and in the company of his inevitable spaniel, pruning the barberry hedge along Quincy Street. Top-hatted and tall-coated, he once deserted a meeting of the overseers of the university to assist workmen at an excavation back of Matthews Hall where it was reported buried fragments of eighteenth century Harvard blue plate had been recovered. His fund of anecdotes is inexhaustible. The conductors of the subway to Boston salute him by name since, like all true and thrifty Gantabrigians, he eschews the costly taxi. In every sense of an abused word he has been an assured and amiable...
...audiences, texts to local interests. The personal charm and sympathy of his candidate, the confident progression of his campaign, contrasted favorably with the cold mechanical personality, the franctic last minute efforts of Mr. Hoover. More-over, to a nation oppressed with taxes and disgusted with the failure of the Eighteenth Amendment "Immediate Repeal" had far more meaning than the verbiage surrounding "Resubmission...
...this country before the twentieth century, and with few exceptions brands it all as bourgeois and "un-American." It does not occur to him that, even if this, were true, the middle-class is after all sufficiently numerous to deserve literary expression, and the Unites States of the eighteenth and nineteenth countries was not "American," as he demands that term be used...
...House Common Room. Mr. Adams will speak on the economic issues of the campaign and on the naval problems which have been confronting the Administration during the last four years. J. H. Beale '82, Royall Professor of Law, will also speak this evening, on the Constitutional Aspects of the Eighteenth Amendment and will contrast the Republican and Democratic views on this subject. Both talks, which are sponsored by the Harvard Republican Club, will be of an informal nature, and it is expected that the speakers will hold a forum after the regular talks. R. H. Amberg '33, will introduce...
...poor human nature is sorely tried. College officers may do their best, but under the most virtuous of deans it is difficult to keep the young athlete from taking pay if his college is cashing in on the game to the tune of hundreds of thousands. It is the Eighteenth Amendment complex transferred to college athletics...