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...glad it's all over," George C. Cunningham, Jr., '42 signed after he barely escaped injury in a freak accident on Quincy Street yesterday morning. A driverless car pulled out of the curb, rolled down the hill, across the sidewalk, and smashed into a stone foncopost near where Cunningham was standing...
...Freshmen skating in the Yard last night set a new high in undergraduate ingenuity. The skaters, Munroe A. Winter '42 and Whitall N. Perry '42, both of Hollis Hall, taking advantage of the layer of ice left on the ground by the freak weather of Wednesday, glided between Gray's and Weld for over an hour and a half...
Charles F. Brooks, professor of Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, attributed the freak weather to a current of tropical air flowing north from the Gulf Stream. He reported a maximum wind velocity of 71 miles an hour at the Observatory...
Teachers College at Columbia is straying from its task. By the evidence of these recurrent Monday morning sensations, it is more interested in freak publicity than in sober common sense. Teaching is a profoundly important profession and faces a formidable task. The decision at Harvard strengthens it for the struggle. The action of Teachers College at Columbia breaches its defenses. -Boston Evening Globe...
Once a decade, by some freak, an Abie's Irish Rose or a Tobacco Road bobs up and refuses to sink for several seasons. Once a decade there may be an opening night, like that of What Price Glory? in 1924, when an audience stamps, shouts, weeps from excitement, and refuses to leave the theatre. Once a decade some young playwright who was yesterday unknown, not merely succeeds, but overnight arrives for good & all. Eugene O'Neill did it in the early twenties...