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...certain class of subjects to remain stable, while that of others fluctuated violently. Within the latter group, it has often occurred that two fields have not only fluctuated, but have done so exactly in inverse relation to one another--indicating, obviously, a tendency of undergraduates to stampede hither and you. As popular as Economics is today, it was even more attractive to students in 1910; at that time the enrollment of Ec. A surpassed that of every other course in the college. During and after the war, it became the fashion to concentrate in English, doubtless because it offered...
...hazard put to beat Dartmouth, but behind the steady pitching of end Ingalls and a good relief job by Tom Healey, the Cantabs did-in a game of twenty-runs, eleven errors, thirteen stolen bases and twenty-four hits, of which Harvard made thirteen for seventeen bases. And when hither to victoryless Pennsylvania rose up and smacked Yale, 5 to 4, in eleven innings, first extra-frame contest in the league this season, the Cantab road to the 1938 title was made a little easier...
...Guardian will enter a hither-to untouched field when it presents a series of seminars for Freshmen on the use of Harvard's vast library facilities, with the participation of prominent authorities...
Last week the melodramatic Kun saga took a new turn when unofficial reports had it that far from skittering hither & yon plotting the world revolution, the veteran bogeyman had incurred the displeasure of Soviet officials, who arrested him, charged him with communicating with Trotskyists during his recent rumored journeys to Spain, locked him up in jail...
...Roosevelt. A $25 dinner at Detroit had Senator Elbert D. Thomas of Utah (Governor Murphy was ill). The $50 dinner in Chicago had Senators Duffy and Lewis and the same priced dinner in Manhattan had Herbert Bayard Swope. No less than 20 reliable Senators and over 30 Congressmen spoke hither & yon. How much all these dinners netted, Democratic statisticians had not yet calculated, but the gross take of the dinner-of-dinners at Washington was a matter of simple arithmetic: 1,300 dinners times $100 a plate equaled...