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...onto a train to Stamford, brought them back to New York by the next train. In her East 69th Street house Mrs. Roosevelt grimly sent the boys supperless to bed -on separate floors. To newsmen Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Distler explained that the escapade was merely "an ill-advised prank." that their chief worry was whether the boys would be readmitted to Groton. Said the parents: "They really love the school...
This puerile attitude took a more sinister form in the forged letters which falsely accused certain Freshmen of having social diseases. This prank has been tried before in other colleges, and has on occasion resulted in suicide when the recipients were more than usually sensitive. Here it had only the effect of further alienating Freshmen from the idea of cooperation...
...only is the victim of a prank in such obvious bad taste apt to suffer unjustly, but the reputation of the Hygiene Department for providing accurate, constructive health information to students undergoes unwarranted defamation. It is not an easy job to build up undergraduate confidence in the University's hygiene center, but Dr. Bock has made progress in this direction. It is therefore not a laughable joke which threatens to tear down such work. Particularly in the light of the announcement today that Harvard doctors are wholeheartedly backing a movement to make medical aid more available to the general public...
...knew Pius-before-the-Vatican, Reporter Morgan adds many a revealing detail. He has twice visited Desio, the Pope's birthplace where he is still referred to as "Pope Ratti," "Cardinal Ratti" or even plain "Achille Ratti." Said a contemporary of Pius XI: "He was in every boyish prank. ... He always liked to jump. ... In a fight with my cousin, he got a bloody nose. He never forgot that. It took him a year but he gave his milk brother [son of Achille Ratti's wet-nurse] something to remember in a black...
...strictly on their own ability. The story concerns two young boys, one eleven, one twelve, whose genius for violin playing makes them a joy to their Russian teacher. Both are to enter a nation-wide musical competition, but the elder boy arouses the ire of the professor through a prank and is banished from the studio. In a grim and gloomy mood at his misfortune, he composes an original cadenza to Beethoven's concerto which is such a masterpiece that when his younger pal plays it in the competition finals, both are justly acclaimed as the coming miracle...