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Thanks to the punctual arrival of singers and audience, the program by the Club singers was concluded soon enough so that the Harvard songs also could be put on the air, with some 400 students joining the Club on Widener steps...
...business. John Hancock's Cox earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Dart mouth (Class of 1893). He then studied law at Boston University, was long a part ner of William Morgan Butler, onetime (1924-26) Senator from Massachusetts and campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge. Now 65, punctual, precise, New England-ish, Guy Cox likes to fish, farm, browse through his favorite authors, who include Horace, Catullus, Tacitus, Juvenal, Proust, Havelock Ellis...
...have shaken ourselves entirely free from the Gladstonian structure and tradition of finance. The gold standard, an enormous sinking fund, the strict 'and punctual discharge of international obligations, all are gone, unwept, unhonored and unsung...
...subject of her intuition. On one occasion he stubbornly gambled away 1,000 francs in an effort to show her that her hunch about a certain number was nonsense. Though he never succeeded in weaning her from unpunctual habits, his husbandly summation was a nutshell masterpiece: "I regard non-punctuality as bad manners. I don't expect you to be punctual; I know you are not capable of it, save under great stress. On the other hand, I don't expect to be told, when you are late, that it is my fault that you are hurrying...
...meeting on November 8 is open only to members of the University; preference will be given in seating to undergraduates in the College. As the broadcasting must be punctual, all those attending will be expected to be seated before 8 o'clock, when President Conant will open the meeting...