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Yard Cops last night bagged 25 cars in the first of the annual hide-and-seek contests between the impecunious students seeking to avoid garage fees and the University henchmen, valiantly trying to keep people off the grass. Spokesmen for the University team announced with glee that they expected a much larger haul tonight and the CRIMSON has found out through its own devious sources that Cambridge police are already entering the game since the Yard Cops, chasing the student chariot off University property, makes it a cinch for local flatfoots to pick them up on municipal byways. This makes...
...high officer in the Yard police who declined to let his name be brought into the discussion remarked that late in August, birth control proving totally impractical, XX high power buckshot was resorted to by his henchmen in their valiant fight. As a result of this drastic action the Yard has remained an habitable region, although the former amicable attitude of the squirrels has given way to one of hauteur and strained reserve--rarely talented indeed will be the member of the Class of 1938 who makes any lasting friends among the four footed denizens of the Yard...
...badge of most legitimate pretenders, France's Henri, who is barred by law from his native land, rose up in Genoa to make what amounted to a fiery campaign speech. Down from Paris to hear him had gone hundreds of Camelots du Roi ("King's Henchmen"), the pick of French aristocracy. No sluggards, they do such chores in Paris as distributing the Royalist news paper, L' Action Française, drill secretly for service under "King Jean...
Such talk France has not heard for a generation from the House of Guise, until recently too refined and well bred to take the political arena. Last week the King's Henchmen at Genoa were admittedly no menace, as yet, to the Government at Paris, but unrest is stirring deep today in France. The National Millers' Association has openly defied the Government's fixed minimum price for grain and is buying below this price in unpunished violation of the law. Last week silk manufacturers of Lyons denounced the Doumergue Government for "sacrificing the export trade of France...
Cheered by the King's Henchmen, he concluded his Genoa speech thus: "Know, then, that you will have, in my father first, and later in myself, a defender prepared to make every personal sacrifice and inspired by the sole desire to consecrate himself utterly to the country, for its happiness, prosperity and greatness...