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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case; and I consequently found myself continually running into things which had happened in various parts of the world of which I was not cognizant. This lack of knowledge was the more noticeable because of my former experience with TIME, during which I was not very often caught unawares in any discussion of a public topic...
...final number, the outgoing board of the Lampoon has produced nothing startling: but that is as it should be. As soon as the Lampoon startles anybody, it is certain to find itself in trouble. A humorist should never startle his public. Whenever that happens everyone (often including the humorist) get very angry without quite knowing why. It is only when the dust of recrimination has subsided that some people (sometimes including the humorist) discover the cause of their anger. The humorist has managed to be funny...
...Association, was won through Pool's speed. Pounding Baker's backhand shots, the Harvard player took the jump early in the game and retained the lead until the end of the last match. Baker's forehand was difficult for Pool to handle at times, but the University player often forced the defender into many errors on his back-hand shots...
...campus and whether, as has been said, twenty-six other girls have disappeared." Denying categorically that the college is a hot bed of radicalism, atheism, and immorality, the bulletin says further, "It is apparent that current magazines and daily papers are at present subjecting all colleges to sharp and often undeserved criticism, and that Smith has seemed to come in for a particularly heavy share." The charge of immorality which is mentioned, is the outcome of the country wide publicity given a questionnaire on sex distributed three years ago in a course in advanced psychology at the suggestion of students...
...competitions because it wants only those men who are willing to undertake the hardest possible form of endeavor. Then there is a second and more practical reason. The CRIMSON candidate becomes immediately upon his election to the Board a full fledged editor. And as an editor he will often be faced with situations which require a large measure of prompt and vigorous action. He may find some afternoon in the late spring that he is confronted with the task of getting out an entire paper practically without assistance; he may learn of an important appointment or death at a late...