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...Harvard-Yale game closed with a rush Thursday, and the H. A. A. was swamped with the hundreds of blue envelopes which were handed in at the eleventh hour. The H. A. A. ticket agents will be kept busy until the end of the week sorting and fling the Yale applications, but on Monday they will begin taking late applications for tickets to the Princeton game, for which there is still a slight surplus of tickets in the Harvard section. However, contrary to the impression originally given, there will be no general sale of these extra tickets as there...
Aside from the fling at Eve, there is some justification for Dean Greenough's remarks on athleticism versus scholarship. Only 17.9 percent of all upperclassmen last year obtained honor grouping of any description. This is not a record of capacity, but of accomplishment. It would be preposterous to think that more than four-fifths of the upperclassmen are actually unable to meet the requirements for honors. The simple fact is that too many are content with merely satisfactory grades. A man who devotes himself to studies, and nothing else, is thought one-sided. And the opinion is not without foundation...
...listened apathetically to appeals for his interest in the seething world outside. Except when such participation promised a gay torchlight procession or a chance to hurl milk bottles without interference it moved him not. But when deans and presidents themselves rush from the cloister the undergraduates will doubtless fling aside robes and sandals and plunge into the whirring world...
Revelation. Once more a Paris model is apotheosized, after first being allowed by a kindly director to have her fling before settling down to a good, but humdrum, existence. This story of a French girl, who works out her salvation by posing for the Madonna and acquiring some of her spiritual quality, might be effective if Charlie Chaplin directed it-and somebody besides Viola Dana played the role. But Lew Cody, Monte Blue and Marjorie Daw help very much in this story, which is The Miracle reversed...
...there will probably be many attending the Convention who will want to have their fling in New York. Being strangers here, they will be ready to pay. Whether they will have to pay through the nose (i. e.?dearly) depends on two factors...