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Manila, P. I., Sept. 27--Two agents of the Harvard CRIMSON, arriving here today in a junk from Shanghai, China, announced that they had with them the successor to Joe Forecast, the famous Chinese prophet, Dr. Who Slung Hooey...
...footnote was Letter-Writer O'Brien's, not TIME'S. And it was correct, not "hooey." "Dog-robbers" were called "strikers" often enough to get into Webster's Dictionary under "striker." U. S. Army officers were forbidden to use enlisted men as servants by Act of Congress July...
There will be no cries of outrage on the part of undergraduates in the ears of Mr. Roberts not attempts to out-Herod Herod on the part of the men whose "semi-idiotic obtuseness" he lampoons. The "extra-thick coats of indifference", which he says are a "lot of hooey", will at least protect his victims from the shower of garbage loosed by his glorification of the exception in place of the rule. The only men who will even feel embarrassed are those whom he pictures at luncheon in a prominent undergraduate club--he suggests the "Soup Club"--under such...