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...year in mind of the Senior who has got only so far as to deciding what general field he want s to enter, but has no leads to a job and does not care much where he starts in so long as he can believe that the hob he takes offers an opportunity for advancement towards the goal he has set for himself...
...present time, since it continues to limit its field of publication, and allows outside encroachments. Not every man is interested in such a scholarly work as "The Achievement of Greece," but such works, should they need support, ought to have a patron even at the expense of hob-nobbing with less aristocratic press-mates. There is no need on the other hand of encouraging incipient novelists or poets, but, as has been suggested by the Bulletin, more books of the type of President Lowell's "Public Opinion in War and Peace", which are finding presses elsewhere, might be profitably printed...
...Provide Clod-Shoes at the Entrance. Some students derive such subtle pleasure from hearing the reading hall resound with the click-click of their hob-nails on the marble edgings that we ought not to enjoin them to walk softly, but, rather, we ought to furnish them with clod-hoppers, the more to indulge that subtle pleasure...
...solution, I believe, may be partly found in the suggestion that I have offered above. I do not advocate any hob-nobbing with professors, but I do plead for more Sunday afternoons at President Lowell's, more Sunday evenings at Professor Hurlbut's, more Monday afternoons at Professor Lowes's, and above all, for a still more informal, intelligent Faculty tea system. HAROLD A. EHRENSPERGER 1G. In the Alumni Bulletin...
...unlikely that when Mayor Andrew-James Peters of Boston spent a night as a hob in the Wayfarers' Lodge some of his bedfellows were Reds who had threatened in pen and ink to have his life's blood. "You will be shot Friday night at 12," wrote one of the avengers. Peters had made brave war upon the Bolsheviki, silk-stockinged and stocking less. Yet he seems to have slept like a babe, though there were enemies of society snoring around him as well as good Americans down on their luck. Was it Peters of Harvard or Peters...