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...Patrick, affectionately known in local as the snake skinning savant, takes second place to John Sullivan one-time general in Washington's Continental Army, in official City celebrations today Sullivan commanded the Cambridge fort when the order came to evacuate the city on March 17, 1775, 177 years ago. The day will be called Evacuation Day, in double commemoration...
...Mullins, Boston Herald columnist, is feuding with a University "savant" for the second time. Last year he quarrelled with Charles R. Cherington '37, associate professor of Government, this spring it is Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics...
Absent-minded professors, too, come in for their share of anecdotes. One brought in his laundry, and, an hour later called, begging that his false teeth, which had been included in the package, be brought to Logan Airport, where he was waiting to catch a plane. The savant enjoyed a comfortable dinner in Washington...
While most college men develop a natural aversion to the books they read in courses, many a way ward savant has a goodly supply of the slightly worn texts of bygone courses. In a land of publishers' plenty a student might afford to be casual about books, but in Central Europe a volume of American history or literature is almost as rare as a meal of 2000 calories...
...will Finn-Engle a win today and start a new Regime," ventured the omniscient savant. "Let's up and Adam...