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...Dunster House the very first man who was questioned turned out to be a Lampoon editor! No truth to be found there! Aside from that Dunster wasn't so bad. The seeker after knowledge discovered that 24 per cent of those resident therein studied a fair amount of the time, 18 percent had bill session" or bridge parties, 12 per cent were away for at least the early part of the evening on extra-curricular activities (it is well known how Lampoon editors spend their nights), and finally there was the 46 per cent that habitually passes its evenings elsewhere...
...agree that the trip, especially with his family, was a foolish undertaking, and merits condemnation, but to rehash the past when a man is trying to rehabilitate himself is akin to striking him when he is down (and in more ways than one). Mr. Hutchinson may be the publicity seeker: he may even have beamed with delight over some of his notoriety: if so he has his reward. The Post's comment has certainly mingled his wine with wries however, and for you to reprint this seems a bit unTiMEly. His mistake in this case has no bearing...
Because Editor Reed Harris of the Columbia Spectator (undergraduate daily) was expelled last fortnight there was a mass meeting at the base of Columbia University's gilt alma mater statue. Rated by some a publicity-seeker, by others an able crusader, Editor Harris was conspicuous last winter with charges of professionalism in Columbia football (TIME, Nov. 23) and lately with attacks on the management of John Jay Dining Hall, whose food and sanitary conditions he claimed were poor. Columbia's Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes announced that Student Harris was expelled for ''personal misconduct." But to many...
...License Seeker...
Come Back. As an office-seeker "Alfalfa Bill" needed no political introduction to Oklahoma voters. His picture was in most State history schoolbooks because he had presided at the Guthrie Convention in 1906 which wrote the Constitution admitting Oklahoma to the Union. In fact he claimed to have written most of that 45,000-word document. He had served as Speaker of the first State Legislature, only to be beaten for Governor in 1910. Elected in 1912 to the House of Representatives he was beaten in 1916 because he dared to predict that President Wilson, instead of "keeping...