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...Mayhap, it was the dreary weather and the drafty atmosphere atop Memorial Hall that saddened the Vagabond last night. Moving day comes the first of May, he recalled and by then Spring too would have come and there would be no sense in moving. Ah, the futility of it all, he mused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/6/1931 | See Source »

...Dartmouth's gala Winter Carnival goes many a comely young woman to dance, to watch winter sports, mayhap to taste beverages from Canada, hard by. As convention demands, chaperons are present, a precaution against possible irregularities. Most undergraduates at most colleges regard chaperonage as an unnecessary appendage to a good party. Unless they be their female relatives, chaperons get little attention from the male revelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chaperons | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

Others beside the CRIMSON have called the Widener murals glorified war posters, but hitherto these persons have avoided being heralded as boyish, mayhap because of their rather obvious graying hair. Few will question the aptness or the simile who have not been prepared for the first sight of these works by a careful instruction as to their hallowed origin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO THE WALL | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock rates the abhorred FF. Shunned by his believing classmates, his allowance cut-off mayhap from home, he is left only the chance of staying in a game with a double ante...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GET A's | 2/12/1929 | See Source »

Lest lapses should be chronic Mayhap this futile little rime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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