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Fetish worship, superstititions, and plain personal peculiarities flourish to a large extent among University students, it was ascertained by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...country as new as Amercia it takes but a short time for a custom to arise, for a tradition to flourish. Already the football game between the teams from Hanover and Cambridge has become a custom, a tradition. Nor is it in any sense other than an excellent one. For two New England undergraduate bodies to mingle once a year can do neither harm. And the game itself has all the attributes of the best in college football...
SWEEPINGS-Lester Cohen-Bom & Liveright ($2.50). A new dynasty has been founded in U. S. fiction. Its name is Pardway. The roots strike back to Peter Aram Pardway's smithy in postRevolution New England. The great branches flourish in Chicago where Peter's grandsons, dry Daniel and black Thane, have amassed fortunes by the opening of the pres-ent century. Today the Pardways are decayed and blown to the earth's ends; in their author's figure, the pillars of their temple have crumbled, the roof crashed. Their tragedy is that Daniel, who alone had increase...
From time immemorial, farmers have planted their root crops in the dark of the moon, though scientists state it is mere superstition. Similarly, though summer schools now flourish, the real tubers of Education-are not set in until the days begin to shorten. Last week marked the world-wide beginning of mankind's annual effort to keep posterity abreast of the times...
...discovered by the great man who gave forty years of his life in building Harvard University from the small, yet glorious fragments of an ancient heritage, that the only atmosphere in which Truth can flourish is that of freedom. Hence there is no undistinguished background to this benefice, received as their trust by the Class of 1930. Not the futile liberty of frenzied, nor the license of vulgar minds, but the freedom essential to the growth of decent, vital, creative minds--that is the gift with which Harvard University endows its students...