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...proposals in your columns, only one thing has never been held disputable, and this is the advisability from a national policy point of view of having a standing conscripted army at all. It is difficult for a student of draft-able age to speak about this matter without being misunderstood to be defending his immediate and obvious self interest...
...Misunderstood, feared, revered, and gossiped, the secret societies cap every Yale-man's ambitions. Their windowless, padlocked tombs squat on central points in the campus; tight-lipped members emerge from ponderous doors at midnight and lock-step through the streets of New Haven...
...have been terribly misunderstood in Wednesday's CRIMSON. This is probably caused by a misunderstanding of one of your reporters. He saw me about a week ago, and our discussion was mainly concerned with Harvard football. We both came to the conclusion that the attitude toward football could be brought up, and the best way to improve this attitude was to start with the freshman class...
Lonesome Gal is resigned to being misunderstood by the rest of her sex. "Some girls think I'm trying to steal their guys, but I'm not. I just say things a lot of girls don't have the nerve to say to their men." Has anyone considered her show suggestive? "I never say more than 'I'd like to kiss you on the end of the nose'-something impersonal like that," she explains indignantly. "I might tell a guy how nice it would be to spend a weekend in a small and charming...
...Some of the ladies who were ladling out coffee to each other had come over in such haste that they hadn't had time to get into uniform. One elderly lady said that she had come by bicycle to avoid traffic tie-ups but had misunderstood and been circling at the wrong end of the Common. "People kept cheering me on as I rode by," she said, her checks still flushed from the exercise...