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Reactions to the extension announcement varied with class standings. Those in the lower third of the disbursing class, with a breath of relief, recognized the extra two weeks as a period of grace in which to raise averages; whereas, the top third was dismayed over the increased possibility of slipping...
While the "shore patrol boys" were working themselves into a dither over the situation. I arrived at a marvelous but simple conclusion--why not turn the Common into one big victory garden? This would certainly help the food situation in Boston and it would also remedy the aforementioned condition. But...
...instance, that its waggish editorial member, Christopher Morley, had sent a telegram to Jane Benedict, president of the protesting Book and Magazine Union. Said Mr. Morley: "Assume principal objection is to chapter where Commissar Dlugash, Georgian renegade, makes his burlesque of Stalin." Miss Benedict wired back: "Other passages equally objectionable as one you mention." The curious thing was that The Fifth Seal contained no such episode...
In its seventeen years of existence, the reading period has grown greatly. Beginning in the Department of History, Government, and Economics, it was rapidly expanded to become part of all save laboratory courses. At first, the only objection raised by Harvard undergraduates to the system was that some professors, thoroughly...
When objection was made to considering his resolution, Senator Lodge agreed to lay it aside, added, with sardonic significance: "The undersigned Senators declare that, if they had the opportunity, they would have voted for the resolution." The undersigned names added up to 37; it was the first clear warning to...