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...semi-humorists of Lampy come out of the funk and accept the gauntlet, the game will be played "on a neutral board" sometime next week, according to George R. Clay '43, temporary chairman of the Harvard CRIMSON Athletic Association...
Armed with a fifty page report, a committee of the American Association of Scientific Workers, headed by Bart Jan Bok, associate professor of Astronomy, will throw down the gauntlet to the rapidly increasing tens of thousands of astrologers in this country today. This is the result of six months of exhaustive research by astronomers at Harvard...
Fathers who accompany their sons are permitted to run the regisration gauntlet with their progeny, but mothers are politely seated at the east end of the Hall and told to wait...
...pitfalls that would of a surety bestrew his path. The field was full astir with the dread enemy, loud roaring for his pure blue blood. Summoning his last ounce of courage, and calling up for the final time the image of the virgin Lily Maid, he ran the gauntlet with a desperate rush...
While the heroics of the last scene are enough to make any present-day cynic writhe, it cannot be denied that Mr. Anderson throws down the gauntlet with conviction and carries the waning torch of idealism high and haughtily. As such, the play warrants consideration from cynics and believers alike. Of course, stretching the Anderson thesis a point further, one can see more than a slight tinge of whooping up the Allied cause in the present war and a plea for U.S. intervention. This facet of the play's "message", if taken seriously, would probably make almost anyone writhe...