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Speaking on the subject "The Irrational Element in Poetry", the American poet Wallace Stevens will give a free public lecture tomorrow afternoon in Sever Hall at 4:30 o'clock. The lecture is under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
...rule, Memorial Hall produces a rather stunted crop of lost articles, usually only a few hats, while Sever and the New Lecture hall vie with each other for the blue-ribbon harvest of left-overs...
...thoroughly stunned condition, one student deserted $150 worth of watch. Watches seem to figure most heavily in losses. Every conceivable piece of clothing not an integral part of the owner has been forsaken. At times two men have struggled from Sever to the lost-and-found office in Lehman Hall, under loads of clothes forgotten by flustered students...
Reports show an astonishing increase in deposited wads after examinations. Students evidently seek solace from nervous tension in gum-chewing. Rather significant, however, is the fact that the number of wads in Memorial Hall after an exam cannot compare with the number deposited in Sever and the New Lecture Hall. The awe-inspiring nature of the edifice must exert a restraining influence on the chicle-grinders. Especially heavy sufferers from deposits during exams are the so-called "examination boards" laid across armrests for the occasions...
Students apparently respect classrooms and the feelings of instructors as a rule, for Sever's tiled ground floor is liberally bedaubed each day with wads discarded upon entrance. Chicle gum is dried balata juice, which comes from the South American Sapodilla tree, and College caretakers are unanimous in consigning the stuff to perdition...