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Along with the perpetual alarmist, we must "view with apprehension" a recent tendency in our midst. The honorable and gentlemanly custom of removing hats in Widener is becoming obsolete. The handkiss of salute, the lady's curtsy, and the gentleman's obeisance--each in turn has passed into the realm of anticuities; now it would seem that this last vestige of gallantry is to join the forgotten throng...
...caustic" conclusion to the letter. Do the writers mean that some candidate for a class office actually refused to speak to one of their ac uaintances? It is within the realm of possibility that the candidate did not know him; if so he can hardly be accused of refusing to speak...
...cultured and interesting is a far different matter, apparently beyond the realm of education, if we come to college only to have something done to us. Fortunately this aspect of education can be questioned. It is true that worldly experience will make a man interesting, and no amount of book-learning will necessarily make him cultured. But is it not also true that many men graduate from the University who are educated and cultured and interesting? How do they do it? Perhaps the answer is that they did not come to Harvard only to have something done to them. They...
...rowing or track he must remember that in them "There exist opportunities for the promulgation of the international relationship whose recently appreciated significance has utterly changed their character as mere sport and made them important adjuncts to statecraft and diplomacy". His task has expanded beyond the realm of common reporter so that today it is of such significance that Mr. Perry feels justified in saying that there are few sport writers who "recognized their stewardship in respect to the ethics and morals of amateur sport...
After three long years of waiting, the Senior Class will today receive collectively certain coins of the realm which in days of yore they contributed as individuals for one of those Senior Pienics, now but a memory. For what changes time has wrought! Is not the currency inflated like a toy balloon, that it might be fulfilled which was spake by Professor Taussig, "If prices rise, the debtor gains and the creditor loses"? You may, indeed, "take back the half that thou gavest"; but how little does it represent in the way of "consumable goods" for senior picnics...