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...refer to the Lucky Strike ad containing a jingle attributed to "K. G. Inglold, Harvard University." This is a misrepresentation, since there is no Ingold among the student body or the faculty or the employees of Harvard University...
...told [by Senator Taft that] it is very rude to refer to anybody as an isolationist . . . that all isolationists are extinct, that they are just as dead as the dodo. But there is a new species on the horizon and this new species I call the 're-examinist,' because the re-examinist says, 'I want to re-examine all our policies...
...Louis Linder, always kind, helpful, and generous to the Yale men, took over the management. Students began to refer to the new Temple Bar location as either "Mory's" or "Louie's." But in 11912 expansion of the business district forced out the alehouse. A group of alumni, under the name of Mory's Association, Incorporated, bought the present white colonial building on York street as a food-and drink club for Yale men, and moved in Louie, the old clock, the books, the tintype photos, and other reminders, of "Quiet House" and Temple Bar days...
...poetry are different from readers of philosophy: they are more apt to draw conclusions that the poet never intended. "You know," said Eliot in a confidential digression, "in one of my poems I use the words 'the spectre of a Rose.' Now, I intended that to refer to the Wars of the Roses. Then I wanted it to hint of Sir Thomas Browne's famous 'ghost of a Rose'. . . But I was also quite pleased to hear that some people thought it referred to Nijinsky [and the ballet associated with him]." Nobody had any trouble...
...Student Health Committee has taken charge of the sex lectures to be given in the spring, and will discuss with members of the administration possible programs and speakers. Members of the committee will also evaluate the lectures when they are given, and will refer suggestions for improving next year's series to Council...