Word: shavings
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...suit was a suit and a hat a hat is passed. Warnings and ridicule of the increasing vanity of man can be laid to despairing editors in dire need of filler who under such circumstances will draw unwarranted conclusions from a single individual rich enough to purchase hair cut, shave, shampoo, and tonic all at once...
...young warriors who are old enough to shave and not old enough to vote with the machine are ordered to abide in Cambridge during the summer. The place of their abiding will be the dormitories. But how changed will be those dormitories from their erstwhile winter and springtime gladness. The alarm will not ring at 10 A. M. But the bugle will blow in the cold dawn. More terrible even than the awakening will be the aftermath. Before even one soldier may imbibe his coffee and beans he will be forced to make his bed with his own martial hands...
...Advocate is a fairly good one. The editorials are far above the average, being on interesting although rather old subjects, and being written in a plain and straight forward style. With most of them we agree, but the one dealing with the "refusal of a local barber to shave a member of the University" is a rather flippant treatment of a serious subject. The "College Kodaks" which in this number follow the editorials are unusally bright. There are only three of them, but none falls flat and the second is really a very good story. "The Man in White...
...padding of the shoulder or throat. Suddenly a small tuft of hair seems to spring from the big man's head. "Halt!" cries his opponent's second. The swords are instantly stuck up by the seconds and the umpire steps up to examine the head. It was a close shave, but the skin is whole, so they start again. The men are now getting terribly excited. Breathless and panting they slash away at each other; and it is no easy matter for the seconds to stop them at the word "halt." - London Society...
...This working until breakfast with a wet towel around your head is very romantic when you tell it to your sympathizing lady friends, but it is of no use in actual practise. Finally don't study up to the last moment. Take a good breakfast then take a shave and a quiet smoke between 9 and 10 o'clock and then go into the examination room with a clear head and a calm philosophic frame of mind...