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...that the lack of a mascot is cause for satisfaction rather than for regret. In part it says: "While other colleges were adopting an entire menagerie of appropriate animals, Harvard remained aloof and chaste, refusing parentage of even so mild a nature. Yale became big brother to a bull pup: Princeton mothered a tiger; but Harvard was the father only to a gentle wish that some day this foolishness might cease...
While other colleges were adopting an entire menagerie of appropriate animals, Harvard remained aloof and chaste, refusing parentage even of so mild a nature. Yale became big brother to a bull pup; Princeton mothered a tiger; but Harvard was father only to the gentle wish that some day this foolishness might cease...
...change along the highways can hardly be estimated. When long lines of malted cows no longer straggle across the deep-blue meadow, the autoist may find line to admire the bovine sedateness of the brirdled cow. When the sad white pup ceases to moan up into the victrola, when the tire twins stop rubbing their eyes and get to bed, when that inexecrably good-looking rounder stops boasting of the mile he never walked, when the world has used up all that good gulf gasoline, then the tired eyes of city dwellers may no longer be tortured by the garish...
...Secretary Slemp, eternally vigilant, stepped between the busy chief executive and a sheaf of letters from Washington renters at odds with their landlords. The renters, threatened with raises, applied excitedly for presidential intervention, for army "pup" tents on the White House ellipse in case the landlords remained adamant. Vigilant Slemp passed word about rent raises to the District Attorney, about "pup" tents to the War Department. Realtors offered the President their services and Mr. Slemp thanked them. Thus was the Presidential desk kept free for national business...
...been renamed the "Pep", and the "Brown Pup" has been changed to the "Black Pup". The names of the "White Pup" and the "Class of 1892" are unchanged. These 4 boats have been painted a brilliant crimson. The "Black Pup" has a 2 inch black stripe on each side and across the stern to distinguish it from the "White Pup," which has a similar stripe of white...