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...long arm of the law reached out its aquatic tentacles yesterday and damply tapped an innocent College oarsman on the shoulder. Rowing blandly past the Weeks Memorial Bridge, the Freshman credit-seeker unexpectedly found himself being swamped by the wake of a police barge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasty Action Saves Rower From Wet Parking Summons | 5/13/1947 | See Source »

...Religions may split into sect or heresy; dynasties may perish or be supplanted, but for century after century the University will continue, and the stream of life will pass through it, and the thinker and the seeker will be bound together in the undying cause of bringing thought into the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beautiful Places | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Socialist corruptor of youth and of American institutions. His next letter is from a Catholic priest who hails him as a vanguard figure in the struggle to preserve the American family. the same mail yields a series of long legal forms which notify him that an Arlington, Va., office-seeker thinks him a wanton defamer of decent people's character, and has filed suit to that effect with the Supreme Court. And not infrequently students in certain of his courses come to Emerson 200 to ask almost literally whether he knows "where the Hell their course is heading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 10/19/1946 | See Source »

...took cojolery for the clerk selling mens trousers to convince the seeker that book authorizations didn't include replacements for pants worn out on a Geology field trip. No, not even if the trip was undertaken under the G. I. Bill Not even if the rocks encountered there were solely responsible. Not even if the rocks were rough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'But da Rocks Is Rough,' Says Vet With Hole in His Flannels | 10/11/1946 | See Source »

...seeker after truth last week asked: "If life holds no joy, why live?" Answered Teppe: "Why indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dolorism | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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