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...note--Since few people write the CRIMSON at this time of year, I wanted to show you the type of letter that I think would liven up our column. If this letter had not been written us, modesty would have restrained me from pointing out the fact that in the first Harlow skirmish the score is: CRIMSON 5, Harlow...
...Tilden, Bruce Barnes and Vincent Richards, Promoter O'Brien played 75 towns and cities, taught the public to like professional tennis exhibitions, grossed $243,000 from 352,412 customers. But no theatrical producer puts on the same thing year after year. Casting about for a new act to liven up his show, Promoter O'Brien selected the great doubles team of George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Three weeks ago Tennist Lott capitulated to Mr. O'Brien's cash proposal. Last week Tennist Stoefen, who with Lott scored the only U. S. point against Britain...
Professor Tozzer gives all the lectures in the course and although he doesn't attempt to hold his listeners spell-bound he manages to keep the audience awake, which is more than some lecturers can boast. Slides, almost every week liven up the work, and make the students tear their hair when tested on them at the end of the year. If a man wants to become acquainted with the University Museum, which, by the way, is quite a fascinating morgue, the Museum Walks in Anthropology 1 will do the trick...
...throne after her father's death, she let it be clearly understood that there never would be a prince consort. Her bedfellow was a lady-in-waiting. Personally popular with her subjects, she soon got into hot water because she imported foreign intellectuals (notably Descartes) to liven up the heavy Scandinavian atmosphere. When she decided that she had had enough of being ruler, she amazed Europe by abdicating, going to Rome to live. There, although she had turned Roman Catholic she was a constant source of embarrassment to the authorities by her loud, eccentric and unladylike behavior...
There is, in French 1, a choice between various methods of learning the principle parts of the verb "ennuyer." One can choose Mr. Kelsey as an instructor, and be bored with attempts to liven the classes with French geography and American social problems; one can choose Mr. Harvey and be bored with an interminable succession of "n'est-ce pas?'s." Or one can choose one of the other instructors with less developed technique, and take his chances on the method of boredom. It doesn't matter much in the end; one goes to as many classes as the Dean...