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...program, the hollow of his threat was glistening, for he was working hard, plucking handfuls of notes from his guitar and circling the hall with his voice. When he announced a song the audience knew, they picked it up with a murmur and relished it among themselves with a nod or smile. They came back at him with a verse if he asked for it. Singing "Old Smokey," he threw the words at them one line at a time, catching them again when his chord changed and gave the group their...
...Harvard had voted in the Spring of 1920, the election would have gone, eight years prematurely, to Herbert Hoover. When a smoke-filled room nominated Harding for the job that summer, the College got right in step, giving the Great Gamaliel the nod over Gov. Cox by 270 votes. But the Democratic campaign at College featured a major address by Cox in the Union and a boost from President Eliot. These two factors now made the Democrats much stronger at Harvard than at other Eastern schools...
...proposal has already received the nod of the Undergraduate Athletic Committee, which advises the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at Harvard--the body which will have the final say on the wrestlers' status...
...weekly sprint to Warren House has started again. More than 1250 Freshman members of English A face a long winter of neatly-folded themes, conferences with tired instructors, and slow-moving class meetings twice a week. Their sections have been arbitrarily assigned without so much as a nod towards the varying abilities of the students. Skillful writers may very well find themselves classed with other men who have to be coached all the way up from the fundamentals of grammar. The result is an unwieldy and inflexible course, with material geared to its slowest students...
...Class of '52 will nominate and vote for their officers during the next two weeks, without waiting for the nod from the Dean's Office on candidate's academic standing. Freshman elections will be run by Luretta Davis '49, president of the Senior Class and '52 advisor...