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...great universities, and even an avid press might eventually weary of petty bickerings, founded on untruths. One might question the point or the intended moral of such noble statements as. "In New Haven one is often on the same terms with one's janitor as with one's rooms-mate." And one might try for hours to decipher the meaning of such a magnificent collection of words as "the substance of the spirit of revelry rampant." The results, however, of all these diversions could scarecly be worth the efforts required. No one over attempted to rationalize Jabber wocky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUE HEAVEN | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...found, or a more hospitable. Many interesting points of contrast between them and us are immediately apparent. Impervious to the depressing influences of democracy, the Cambridge helots are obsequious. In New Haven one is often on the same terms with one's janitor as with one's room-mate. But the Harvard man never sees his janitor, save when he comes home in the morning and glimpses him at work on his shoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...play, Hamlet's greeting to his college mate Horatio was: "But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?" At that German university Martin Luther taught philosophy in 1508. Hamlet, before his father's murder had muddled his feelings and emotions, had spent happy undergraduate semesters there. He longed to return. But his uncle-stepfather* urged: "For your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg, it is most retrograde to our desire; and we beseech you, bend you to remain here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son." His mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Wittenberg | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

PHYLLIS--in from Pine Manor on an afternoon's bender and just sick because she can't stay for the tea dancing. To her, everything--including her escort--is wonderful. Her room mate knows a man who is substitute something on Dartmouth's second team and my dear, you should see him: priceless! A light line but she manages to cover territory in a surprisingly short period of time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/22/1927 | See Source »

...Sure. Great. Where is he? In jail. Great. Why? Because he murdered. Swell. His father gets married. Do they drag the story out again for me-FIEND'S FATHER FINDS MATE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fame | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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