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...stoutly contested but felicitous quotation which holds that "Those men who select Dunster House are social climbers, those who elect Eliot have already arrived, and those who choose Lowell don't give a hoot." The tone of the article composed for this morning's CRIMSON by Lowell's House Committee Chairman should serve to establish, in this respect, the attitude of at least a large number of his fellow Housemembers. The continual emphasis upon physical assets rather than upon social glories is only natural. But it fails to give the whole picture...
...about forty-five rooms, on a salary of about eight dollars a week under the present arrangement. The students, to combat the decision, have been gathering in fraternities and dormitories to frame petitions, while it is understood that a protest will appear in the next issue of the Harkness Hoot...
...Writer Liggett again was the most conspicuous contributor. But Common Sense was distinguished by other characteristics. Its founders and chief editors are 27-year-old Alfred Mitchell Bingham, Yale law graduate, son of Republican Senator-reject Hiram Bingham of Connecticut; Selden Rodman, founder and former editor of The Harkness Hoot, literate, insurgent Yale undergraduate magazine; and Charles C. Nicolet. able newsman who quit the New York World-Telegram to assist them. Deriving its name from Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet. Common Sense promised to "stand on a platform of protest, and present a forward-looking program...
Some 20 little towns on the Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers were the scenes of a strange visitation last week. With a hoot-toot, toot! the steamboat Cape Girardeau appeared, swung a wide circle on the muddy waters and churned its broad nose upstream against the slippery chocolate bank. Whereupon a brass band aboard the Cape Girardeau let go full blast. And the voice of a choking giant began to croak through amplifiers: "-Good roads-used to peddle milk in Kankakee-in his own ward he got 700 votes against but 25 for his distinguished opponents-your support...
William Harlan Hale, who during his senior year at Yale founded and edited "The Harkness Hoot," has completed his first book, "Challenge To Defeat," which Harcourt, Brace and Company will publish on May 12th...