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...anything but second date. The best of Southern characteristics, honor and courage, are predominant throughout and all the boys are "worthy young fellows". The leader, MacMurray, is the worthiest. In fact his only lack is a sense of humor, and Mr. Paine has the good fetes to poke a little fun at him in this respect. It should send every boy who reads it flocking to Centre for life there as described in the book is completely idylls...
...case of accident. Inasmuch as a box of Bolshevik gold, destined for work in Italy, had just fallen into the hands of the authorities, people were not slow to connect the two facts. At once a storm of ridicule broke out. Everyone in Italy knocked off work to poke fun t Misiano. From hotel, from restaurant, from the theatre, and then from city to city, he has been hounded by the none too gentle jibes of his countrymen. Everywhere he is recognized and hooted. Hurling epithets and brickbats at "Misanoff", as they have nick-named him, has become the national...
...winter theatre party, but that's not saying it's an improper show. Vicarious parentage is ordinarily not an appropriate topic among the very best people, but William LeBaron, to whom this very idea was born, has spun three acts of good fun and humorous complication. Having resolved to poke fun at eugenics and its converts, he has only to introduce the child in the final act to hoist the humor to its climax. Which he does, and very deftly...
...Fortunio, son to Antonio, K. W. Hunter '12 Rynaldo, Fortunio's brother, L. R. Martineau, Jr., '09 Dariotto, courtier, T. S. Kenyon '11 Claudio, courtier, McC. Reinhart '12 Cornelio, courtier, J. A. Eccles '10 Curio, a page, C. E. Hale '10 Kyte, a scrivener, G. T. Vought '11 Fraunces Poke, a surgeon, R. C. Benchley '12 Gazetta, wife to Cornelio, C. H. Ernst '10 Bellanora, daughter to Gostanzo, L. B. Packard '09 Gratiana, "stolne" wife to Valerio, J. E. Garnsey...
...Harvard University has been considering seriously the advisability of establishing compulsory physical exercise for all undergraduates. The Overseers have recommended such a course for the Freshmen, and during the present week some definite plan for next year may be adopted. Other universities and colleges will be apt to poke a great deal of fun at Harvard for allowing such tremendous liberties in courses, attendance, religious worship, etc, only to draw a disciplinary line in athletics. In other words the Faculty will say the soul may go to perdition but the body will be kept healthy by law. After all such...