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Late in June cartoonists and feature writers of metropolitan newspapers enjoy a field day at the expense of the hosts of bearers of diplomas which step forth into the world. Such levity is inevitable, but it should not, and it does not, impair the delirium of the last week of a college career. It is the Seniors hour, and none should approach to mar the glory whose memory will remain ever bright...
Libraries may be million dollar libraries but unless they are habitable they fail in their purpose. Widener is a superb monument, and it is unfortunate that details which might be corrected should render it imperfect. The appearance of the building has been criticized but that does not impair its undoubted efficiency: the present ethereal conditions, however, do. So in addition to sweetness and light, let there...
...This selective practice tends to impair the student's sense of unity not only in his grasp of the author studied but in his own subsequent writing...
...bootlegger sentenced by Judge English to four months in jail paid Mr. Thomas $2,500. Soon Judge English vacated the sentence be cause jail might impair the bootlegger's health. Said Congressman Stobbs of Mass.: "$2,500 in my part of the country is a fairly good fee in a liquor case." Furthermore, Attorney Thomas did not even appear in court...
...position taken by the Harvard Advisory Committee. Charges of professionalism have been made against college men who play on hotel baseball teams, or are active in the game as camp counselors, or give athletic instruction in some other form. The Harvard position is that such participation does not impair their amateur standing...