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...filthy weed." Already small, Harvard squirrels are becoming alarmingly stunted as a result of this carelessness, and grey-haired mothers are frantic over the sudden shrinkage in squirrel stature. In response to a Crimson survey, one mother waspishly noted that the Yard was beginning to look like a trash heap and that she and other families were thinking seriously of finding more suitable homes...
...automobile by trading in your used car for a reasonable price-say about nine dollars. In San Francisco one John M. McLachlan got a used bathtub for only $8.25 above the ceiling price by buying a medicine cabinet, an ironing board, a garage-door handle and a heap of panel molding with...
...among the Ruins. Gaiety tried to make a brave comeback in another once gay city. The center of Munich, one of the most beautiful of Europe's medieval monuments, is a heap of bombed rubble, but last week Müncheners eagerly jumped aboard bicycles, cars and trains bound to suburban Riems. Reason: horse racing was back. The scene at the track was almost like old days. The horses' names had been changed to others more in keeping with the spirit of the times: Bombe (Bomb) had become Bonne Chance; Offensivgeist (The Spirit of the Offensive) had become...
...Simon Elwes (pronounced El-wez), a young socialite painter who was visiting friends in Yorkshire, decided to have a look at the local ruin, Fountains Abbey. He expected to see a heap of charming and tedious rubble. He saw a heart-touching sweep of Norman, Gothic and Jacobean stone, lichenous and somnolent in great gardens beside the fleet little River Skell. The 814-year-old abbey (desecrated by order of Henry VIII) is England's noblest monastic ruin. Yet it was not its ruinous beauty that most moved Elwes, but his sudden realization of the vivid religious life which...
...rowing event of the inter-collegiate season. Hence a victory, unlooked for by even the most rabid of Crimson rooters, or a finish among the top three eights, would mean that the current Bolles aggregation would return the sweep swingers to a position somewhere near the top of the heap spot that Nowell operatives have traditionally held...