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...your pardon--d--these things." Vag had hardly felt the bump given to him by the flustered young man in new tweeds, but he found himself helping him to pick up the jumbled mass of desk blotters, catalogues and sample newspapers dropped by his excited assailant. "Freshman, I presume?" he queried. "You bet, the Class of '45 is here,"--and the nit was suddenly off and down the street...
Those people who believe that scholars are a woolly-headed tribe, hardly to be trusted with a dollar, are right. In the September Atlantic Monthly, Harvard's Purchasing Agent William Gibbons Morse documents this assertion with a collection of hair-raising tales-out-of-school, called Pardon My Harvard Accent (condensed from a book of the same title to be published this month-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Once an eminent professor, enraged because Morse suggested that he use a second hand lecture chair instead of buying a new one, roared: "I beg your pardon, I have a nasty temper." Morse roared back: "So have I." The professor capitulated...
...Chicago street an elderly man upped to a perfect stranger and said: "Pardon me, may I test your blood?" The indignant citizen calmed down when he discovered who his questioner was: Dr. Oliver Clarence Wenger, top-flight syphilologist in the U.S. Public Health Service. This was the latest wrinkle in a much-wrinkled campaign against venereal disease which City and State health departments have been waging for four years...
Leaning too heavily on the glass covering which sheltered the exhibits an over-zealous Biology D student had come out of his daze to find himself staring at an equally wide and glassy-eyed speciman of early American lobster. "Pardon me," was his sole comment. "Think nothing of it," replied his victim...