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...street "well-dressed, in the habit of the time, his silk hat shining, his collar of a somewhat exaggerated height, his cutaway coat tightly buttoned, his trousers fitting close to the leg. He carries his gloves and a neatly furled umbrella." He is the British replica of Tarkington's Seventeen: fatuously earnest, readily friendly, but suspicious, on occasion, with that fierce suspiciousness of youth questioning the wisdom or motives of the world of adults...
...Seventeen fraternities all hushed into a single building...
...Seventeen fraternities all hushed into a single building is a recent achievement of the Allerton House Companies of New York. "In union," say they, "there's economy." The Cornell Club agreed with them. So did Alpha Tau Omega, Chi Phi, Chi Psi, Delta Chi, Delta Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi, Theta Xi. As a result they are all housed together in a new Allerton fraternity clubhouse at No. 22 E. 38th St., Manhattan...
...news that Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs has resigned from the Chairmanship of the Athletic Committee focuses attention on the service which he has been quietly performing for seventeen years. Appointed to this position when, as Mr. D. S. Brigham points out elsewhere, college athletics were being hotly discussed with reference to professionalism, schedules, coaches, and so on, Dean Briggs was largely instrumental in deciding the future course of Harvard athletics so wisely that, looking backwards, one sees an era of exceptional calm, and--despite occasional flashes--of general athletic good feeling...
...practical problems which were entirely foreign to his previous experience. Be was able to meet these problems in a practical way, but he never lost his idealistic point of view. I believe that it is largely due to his personality that the history of Harvard athletics during the past seventeen years has been singularly free from the criticism and controversy which preceded that period; and all this has been accomplished without radical changes and without impairment of the value of athletics as a definite factor in undergraduate life