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...latest "College spirit is strangely out of date here in Cambridge. But when we travel homeward during the holidays, who does not feel a twinge of pride in naming her school . . . in defending it against a collegian brother? 'A prophet is not without honor in his own country', and school spirit finds fertile soil in all undertakings such as this publication would surely be. Here, then, is an unlimited Alaska: and unplowed West; an ungrazed Australia. The tools are at hand; the fields stretch before us; where are the ploueers?" Well, where are they...
...night the University Instrumental Clubs will leave Boston for Washington on the first lap of their extended vacation trip. A swing through West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana will bring the musicians to Chicago and Milwaukee, after which they will head back to Cambridge, stopping for three concerts on the homeward trip, which ends on January...
...hyenas and leopards in the dark, were occupations,, routine. "As I write," wrote Dr. Mann from Lake Manyara, "there is a chronic bedlam from the courtyard where our material is kept. A freshly arrived baboon is yowling in a way . . . that makes you admire his persistence." The expedition was homeward bound, having obtained its special objects: giraffes, zebras, rhinoceroses...
...cares are lost at 9 o'clock, all caution at 12, all scruples and costumes at 3, all sanity before the dawn. . . . When dawn came, Paris gendarmes-as is customary this one night of the year-offered no objections to the staggering rout that chortled, hiccuped and quarreled homeward with grease paint run amuck and hardly enough draperies among the multitude to have warmed a frog. Scenes of Saturnalian abandonment had been enacted-frenzied dancing, delirious overtures, posturing, French embraces and the parade of "beauty unadorned," in which "La Belle Hélène," a highland peasant wench...
...offer you at once welcome and bon vonaae. May favoring breezes and kindly seas make your homeward journey pleasant and may you always remember that, however difficult the public business upon which you have been engaged, you went out to your ship from the Lotus Club amid the cheers and good wishes of sincere and affectionate friends of France...