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...cope with today. It is true that a multi-lateral convention will involve a certain measure of limited, mutual responsibility. That, however, is to be expected, and any sign of the United States demanding something for nothing will be disasterous to any hopes the American peoples may entertain concerning peace and security...
...Cambridge a steady throng of Harvard undergraduates poured into town this afternoon, bringing along numerous Crimson banners which are the center of attack. The Yale student body spent the better part of the day in preparation for the numerous social and athletic activities which are planned to entertain the visitors from Cambridge and a host of invading female guests...
...hasten to write on this delicate subject because I've been told there's some change in University Hall's policy regarding the entertainment of lady guests in students' rooms. The handling of the problem here--though not quite analogous--may be of some use. In general the regulations are stricter. Men may not ride alone with a girl in a car. In fact owners of cars can't take them out before noon and must have them in before eleven. But surprising as it may seem, gentlemen may entertain girls in their rooms from one in the afternoon until...
...rule, as it reads now, provides that permission to entertain female guests will be granted only when two women are present. In former years it was possible to take a single girl to a House room without a chaperone, provided permission had been obtained several days in advance and all such guests were registered in writing with the House secretary or the senior tutor...
...first piece of the first batch listed above gives an acute analysis of the ways and woes of a charming hostess who endeavors to entertain some dozen heterogeneous people at once, and wins by being vague. The next is a grim one: a diagnostic study of a diagnostic man. It shows what happens when a psychiatrist has a love affair. The third snaps itself abruptly to the vaudeville stage and gives us Noel asking his lovely, amazingly gifted partner, Gertrude Lawrence, "Who was that woman I saw you with last night?" The versatility of the pair is so great that...