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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infatuation increases in direct ratio to her boredom until one night when he finds her with one of her other friends he goes temporarily crazy and strangles her. The irony of this denouement is softened by having the woman recover, the young lover turn back to his former fiancée and the career he had forgotten, but in spite of its compromises The Careless Age remains a better picture than most. Best shot: nerve-treatment in a hotel...
...Gilligan is a greatly improved runner. Stepping high and shifty, the speedy Junior showed none of his former tendencies to run for the sidelines, but made straight for the holes driven through the opposing forward wall. Once across the line of scrimmage, his weaving tactics stood him in good stead. Charles Devens is a strong runner whose versatility will prove valuable. He can back, the line, run the ends, and fits into the lateral passing game well. Harper backed up the line in the usual efficient manner and seems to have more speed than last season. Mays, Sophomore flash...
...Baron Russell Briggs '75, former dean of Harvard College and President of Radcliffe, has announced the publication of another book of charades, entitled "The Sphinx Garrulous: Charades Versified and Diversified...
Perhaps the Vagabond has been a little late in returning to his former haunts, but registration is the least of an old rover's worries. After vagabonding all over the map of Europe and North America it is a bit difficult to slip back into the more confined regions which his duties enforce upon him. A summer which included such varied incidents as climbing the Matterhorn (without guide) and selling kitchen ware on the plains of Kansas (without guide) necessitates a lively start for a season of academic vagabonding...
...class of 1933 enters college its members are reminded to what an extent modern practice has robbed education of its former terrors. The pace of the average freshman across the campus no longer bears any relation to that of the snail. Education has been made as painless as possible. If, in easing entrance requirements so as to admit the vast numbers who are now candidates for degrees in America, the college authorities have sacrificed scholarship, they have added to the adolescent's joy in life. Addressing the students of Columbia at the formal opening of its one hundred and seventy...