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...when he wrote: "True it is that politics makes strange bedfellows." He stole it from Shakespeare's The Tempest (Act II, Scene 2), in which Trinculo, forced by a storm to seek refuge under a sheet with the abhorrent Caliban, says: "There is no other shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows...
Preliminary reports from New England institutions do not confirm the optimistic dispatch from Chicago that "a sharply rising tide of students flooded the colleges and universities, during September." Enrolments hereabout are virtually what they were in 1933. Some colleges have had slight increases, others small losses. Nowhere is there visible the average gain of 10 per cent reported in the West...
Some faithful hearts hereabout must have gone pitapat last week. Dark rumors about the Harvard Lampoon were heard from Boston. It was said to be far from an prosperous as its highbred with its delicate humor, the felicity and urbanity of its occasional hoaxes, its sedulous devotion to the high standards set by its founders--such men as Judge Robert Grant, former Ambassador Stimson and Edward S. Martin--entitle it to be. Fortunately, those apprehensions were groundless...
...gleefully conscious that the undergraduates of certain gentlemanly institutions hereabout have a reputation for being sedate and sedative in the presence of the fair, and for being given to pinks in oolong and underlinen. We are inwardly gratified that we are reputed to be rough in our ways, ready with our blandishments, and resolute in our pursuit of happiness and its appurtenances. Neither estimate errs on the side of verity, but to deny that we appreciate both would be to stretch the truth still further...
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