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Compared to the situation that existed this time last year, when the College was still smouldering under the "double or nothing" rule for entertaining women guests in the Houses, the parietal regulations have come a lon way. The present rules, making for the necessary check-up by the authorities on the one hand, and, on the other, the student's desire to entertain guests in as much freedom as possible, appear to be working tolerably well. One special request may be made for the occasion of the Yale game, however: that permission be granted to extend until eight o'clock...
...column in the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Indeed, so far as I know, Benjamin DeCasseres is the only writer, aside from Mr. [Tiffany] Thayer, who has ever taken Fort seriously as a scientist. It is not likely that such persons as the late Justice Holmes, Lincoln Steffens and myself would entertain any such views as those implicit in Mr. Fort's writings...
...very proper 25? Photo-Facts is late joining the company of such Fawcett magazines as For Men and Daring Detective it is because Publisher Fawcett long suppressed his desire to educate as well as entertain. Last October Publisher Fawcett got to thinking during a transcontinental train trip, stopped at Santa Fe and dispatched to Fawcett Publications Managing Editor Ralph Daigh a day-letter naming and outlining the structure of Photo-Facts...
...club. After Miss Barrett had played the bit for five days, a lady member of the Georgian Society protested that the impersonation was "not a true picture of Southern women." Miss Barrett was promptly ordered to remove the bit from her act. She agreed: "I'm here to entertain people, not embarrass them...
...hard worker at 58, boxing's new Boss Jacobs rises at 7, drives his employes hard. He delights in clambakes and steak dinners at his country place at Fair Haven, N. J. His wife, Josie, likes to entertain his friends. They have no children. He smokes cigarets incessantly, drinks much coffee, is a bundle of nervous energy, able to sleep best at the movies although his snoring causes people to poke him and wake...