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...simply astounded by your Freshman dormitories" said Professor Stephen Leacock in an interview shortly after he had been shown about the University last Friday. "Nothing else to my mind compares to those great buildings in which every year the newcomers learn to love and know the spirit that makes Harvard what...
...fact," he continued, "I am strongly tempted to send my son, Stephen Leacock, Jr., to Harvard if for nothing else than for the advantages he would gain by living in those dormitories. In Canada our universities have no such community buildings and I have never been more strongly impressed by our loss than today when I first saw the dormitories here...
...Stephen Leacock conclusively proved last evening in the Union that literature is getting sillier and sillier--he proved it so conclusively that the appreciative crowd of students from the University and Radcliffe that packed the Living Room was kept in a continuous uproar of merriment. Professor C. T. Copeland '82, introduced the speaker...
...trouble with this," explained the great political economist, "was that it wasn't tough enough for the readers' taste. So a novel developed that was staged in the open, where the heroine was always Miss Middleton--always the Miss." Mr. Leacock went on to describe the hair-breadth escape from the Apaches of the typical couple alone far out in the wilderness; how the hero lowers the girl 200 feet down a precipice with his lariat, and they ride off together over the prairie to the little railway station, where they are to separate forever...
...management of the Union were peculiarly fortunate in obtaining for speakers in November, Hugh Walpole on the 13th and Stephen Leacock, who will speak on Friday of this week. Other prominent men who are coming later are Viscount Grey and Donald MacMillan, the explorer...