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Upperclassmen, who are annoyed to find empty tables in crowded dining halls reserved for men over twenty-one, will not be surprised to read this morning that the restoration of beer to the Houses threatens the College with a thousand dollar deficit. The early expectations that Harvard men would revel in absorbing large quantities of the beverage have been disappointed by the evidence...
...fair play inculcated on the sporting fields of Harvard" which has so delightfully been carried overseas to grace the hitherto depraved Fatherland. The average Harvard man might feel fairly titillated by Hanfstaengl's glowing tribute to "American energy, character, and idealism." Indeed, conservative professors, if not profiteering patriots, might revel in the lovable Ernst's bid for "intellectual, scientific, and human interchange between the U.S. and Germany, without which there can be no true insight, no true understanding, no true progress...
There was a meeting of the Henry Adams Club in Adams House yesterday noon. The club is composed of young graduate students in American history and after dinner they adjourned to the upper common room to revel in some choice tid-bits of knowledge to top off the season. On their way upstairs one of the members, supposedly a stranger to the architectural beauties of Adams House paused before the Tudor door that leads into the Roman court and smiled as he looked at the Moorish dome over the stair well. "It looks like a boudoir," he said...
...book makes no important original contribution to the humanist's argument, nor was it intended to. It is an excellent summing up, a clearing of issues. The convinced disciple will revel in it. The opponent will do well to study it, if only to find what he is opposed...
...White House, left his followers to wonder if he would try to be re-elected in 1936.* On July 29 in the Bohemian Grove near San Francisco many of the nation's tycoons will caper at the annual Bohemian Club outing. To be his guest at that famed revel Citizen Hoover asked Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, a bulwark of the G. O. P.'s Old Guard who did yeoman service in the Senate for the White House in 1928-32. Observers guessed that Senator Reed was not going to take a three and a half...