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Daily usefulness, however, soon began to push any moral significance into the darker corners of the hall. For students used the large room as a notoriously rowdy dining hall. When Carrie Nation, famous hatchet-wielding prohibitionist, discovered that Harvard diners are wine jelly and harm with champagne sauce, she made a dramatic appearance in Memorial Hall. The hour was 3 p. m., the date, November...
Stepping onto the visitors gallery, she shouted: "Boys! Don't cat that infernal stuff. It's poison." The students replied by tossing cigars and cigarettes toward Carrie, but the Kansas hatchet-swinger refused to give up and descended into the fray. She slapped faces, seized cigars and pipes, tried to sell hatches for her crusade, and left only after 2,000 stamping students forced her back onto the electric car for Boston...
...hands on a shovel. His companions would murder him if he did. The camp authorities put them officially into brigades, but it is more than any brigadier's life is worth to try and get any work out of them. Fights are nearly always settled with knife and hatchet. Every year a large batch of more than a thousand blatnye is shipped off to the camps on the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean. From these camps there is no return...
...behind in its repayment. Kimpton ordered his deans to slash their budgets 5%. He reduced his own secretarial staff from 15 to five, uprooted telephones all over the campus. Though he refused to cut faculty salaries, he realized that "you can't do the kind of hatchet job we're doing without its costing you something." He was forced to drop some research projects, could not always replace retiring professors. But by last week he was able to announce that in 1954 the university had ended up $74,000 in the black...
McCarthy are now even, we think, in an unfortunate conflict. The President has pulled the prize boner of going out of his way to congratulate Sen. Arthur V. Watkins for the hatchet job Watkins' committee did on McCarthy. Sen. Mc Carthy in turn has pulled the boner of questioning, by inference, the President's enmity to Communism. Now that these two eminent fighting cocks have given each other their lumps in public, how about a reconciliation, followed by a joint and sustained effort to unify their party? Neither Eisenhower nor McCarthy may believe this in the heat...