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When the Harkness Hoot declared that the house members "were wallowing in luxury", it at least brought out an implication of dampness...
...current number of the Harkness Hoot, which appeared yesterday at Yale, Harvard's culture is attacked in an article entitled, "The Cultural Stato of Harvard" written by a member of the University. The author says that only a few men come to Harvard for culture. "The great number are here because of the social obligation and because they'll get better Jobs," he declares. "If you want to be cultured you stay for an M.A. If you want to push it to absurdity, you stay for a Ph.D...
...outside. Originally intended to give U. S. education a hoary, spiritual aspect, neo-Gothic has only lately been used by radically-minded undergraduates as an issue through which an entire cultural system can be criticized. Last week, in the second issue of a new insurgent undergraduate magazine, The Harkness Hoot, some of Yale's youngsters played hob with copyist architecture, drew a distinction between Harkness & Light. Offered as "Yale's Only Attempt at a Living Art" was a photograph of some scaffolding which was used to remove books from the old library...
From the standpoint of journalistic timeliness, the editors of The Harkness Hoot had the good fortune to defend elsewhere in their current issue the gubernatorial candidacy of Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross, Dean Emeritus of the Yale Graduate School, now Governor-elect of Connecticut. And the announcement of a forthcoming appreciation of Author Sinclair Lewis, Yale 1907, coincided happily with last week's news that Author Lewis had won the Nobel Prize...
Today's issue of the Harkness Hoot included, in addition to the eight-page essay, a pictorial section of eight more pages. If continued the attack on the Harkness gift which is making possible the inauguration of the House Plan in New Haven...