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...According to the adolescent philosophy which Willie Hearst was never to outgrow," Carlson & Bates report, "professors were the natural enemies of the students and the natural enemies of man. So in the Christmas season of 1885 he determined to put them in their place in a right regal manner. To each of his instructors he sent, elaborately done up as a Christmas gift, a large chamber pot with the recipient's name ornamentally inscribed in the bottom. The perpetrator of the lordly jest was easily discovered, and Willie Hearst's connection with Harvard ended forever...
However, Dr. Michael no longer uses x-rays on boys and girls under 18. He has them watch their diet and bowels, wash their faces well, on the expectation that most of them will outgrow their acne naturally. On acne patients between 18 and 22 years of age, he uses x-rays. In older patients he first makes a search for pelvic and gastrointestinal diseases. If he finds and cures such conditions, the acne usually disappears. If not, he resorts to x-rays; and with women, if nothing else works, to female sex hormones...
...Manhattan's most elegant café, the Mayfair Yacht Club. Last week two things made it appear that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom of cabarets into the glare of Broadway and the cinema- would presently outgrow Manhattan. It was rumored that he was soon to leave the Mayfair Yacht Club for Hollywood where his wit, properly censored, would provide an element thus far missing (see p. 30) in musical productions. Last week also, to the amazement of his admirers who had never for a moment supposed that...
...system in performing the function in question depends on the maturity of the tutor. I do not have to tell you that most of the tutorial work in Harvard College is done by the less mature tutors. It has been said that this is a stage which we shall outgrow in time, but there is a danger in being too optimistic on this point. As a man advances in his Department, the tendency is to use his services more and more largely for course instruction, and to cut down on the tutorial load that he has to carry...
...from Dean Hanford, explaining the stand which the Student Council and the administration have taken with regard to subway rioting. The threat of punitive measures in this instance is unfortunately reminiscent of that shiny strap behind the bathroom door, but there are apparently still those who have yet to outgrow the urge to carve their initials on the furniture...