Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard has its vines and roof-balcony; but the only effective work which these appurtenances can accomplish is to cause the imprisoned undergraduate to spend valuable lecture hours in wondering whether it would be better in case of fire, to trust to the firemen or slide down a rain pipe...
...provide this ice surface, which is 200 feet long by 90 feet wide, over eleven miles of pipe are used. Five thousand people can be accommodated at athletic games or other events which require the use of the rink or the track, and eighty-five hundred can attend political meetings for boxing matches. The running track is of standard with and measures ten laps to the mile. It is expected that these facilities for boxing bouts and track meets, especially the annual B. A. A. games, will be welcomed, as the seating arrangements at Paul Revere Hall have never proved...
...conversational altitude of mind; and there has always been enough talk at Harvard, if not real conversation, to justify such a recommendation in this particular case. The book is, in other words, a fireside book like all good collections of essays. One listens to the author, smokes a meditative pipe over an especially fine paragraph, laughs at a surprisingly pat application of a familliar experience, and is ready to say at the end in Dr. Johnson's words, "Sir, we had good talk." Dr. Crofters may have held the floor all evening as Johnson did, but in this instance nobody...
...arguing? There is no use in arguing. Either you smoke and are blessed, or you don't smoke and resort to plebiscites. Suppose smoke, fire and ashes do get into non-smokers' eyes? Where there is smoke there must naturally be fire, cinders, grit, stains on the table cloth, pipe cleaners on the piano, matches in the bread box, and ashes everywhere. They are the cloud of glory the smoker trails after him. They are the outer and visible signs of an inner peace beyond description...
...that a modern University helps little in forming this valuable friendship. Upper Widener is hardly the place for an old pipe and a good book; even the Farnsworth Room in spite of its delightful and charming atmosphere falls short of the ideal. These are places for industrious study or profitable reading but not for "just reading...