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...even the very least of university Pollyannas must remember that canines, though necessary beings, are not, after all, the most delightful companions when they continue to growl like child Menckens. The weather is rather impossible; the divisionals very near at hand; the tutorial reading twice as inglorious as the poorest want ad--and woe is truly upon every ice cake and puddle of existence. But cynicism usually prefaces belief. And the sun really is getting farther and farther from Palm Beach and nearer and nearer the waste lands of Cambridge. Dog days are almost over...
That Harvard is at once the richest university in the country and the poorest is an old saying born of a very important truth. Rich by token of actual endowment, it is often poor by token of immediate needs. With the establishment of the new Harvard Fund whose details are announced in the news columns of this issue, this situation promises to become less serious...
...However inglorious the role of Leonard Kip Rhinelander in this suit at White Plains, it is his lawyers who cut the poorest figure in the case. For obviously this was an affair that ought to have been settled out of court. No matter what the outcome, there was nothing to be gained by trying the suit; no matter what the Rhinelander family may have thought they were doing when they began the suit, good lawyers, lawyers devoted to the larger interests of their clients, lawyers conscious of their responsibility as members of the court, would have found ways to make...
...innings last Saturday the University nine arose in its wrath and smote the Brown bear so lustily that a 7 to 0 score showed on the score-board. Even this advantage was not enough for victory, however, for in the ensuing seven rounds the Crimson made its poorest showing of the season, dissipated its early lead, and lost 10 to 7. As Yale took the measure of a Princeton team which had twice beaten Harvard with ease, the net result of the afternoon was decidedly damaging to Crimson hopes against the Blue...
...criticizes the Acousticon advertisement and says: "My acquaintance with people having 'the poorest of ears' runs into the thousands, not one of whom has been helped by the 'aid' advertised...