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Saturday is not usually much of a day for the Vagabond to make his rounds of the lecture haunts. And were it not banal to talk about the weather it might well be added that these blue skies shine on other paths besides those of board which lead to Sever and the like of Sever. Now this may not be an enthusiastic introduction to the lectures of the day. But stop and consider, any manifestation of interest in things academic under present conditions is a certain sign of something in the offing worth listening...
...moon could of course see the round of the earth because the earth, like the dead moon, reflects the sun's light across the intervening mean distance of 238,857 miles. A man on the earth can see the earth's reflected shine on the moon when "the old moon is in the arms of the new," that is, just as the thin crescent of the first quarter moon becomes visible. That will next happen in the Northern Hemisphere March 7, at 11 p. m. Eastern Standard Time...
Harvard men have never been over-fastidious about the shine of their shoes, but a most cogent reason now exists why even the punctilious no longer have clean and softly refulgent surfaces on their brogues. In their thrice-weekly pilgrimages to the venerable rooms of Harvard Hall, undergraduates are, in time of thaw, confronted with a problem which would try the complacence of the most nonchalant. For some unknown reason no boards have been placed over the much used thirty foot path leading from Harvard Hall to the drive...
Theological concepts of pagan origin are somewhat out of favor just at present, but these gentlemen must surely live in fear and dread lest the Divine Eve-should open earlier than usual some morning and catch them in the act of getting a shine on Sunday...
When, in December 1928, Mrs. Etta Mae Miller, mother of ten, was sent to jail for life for selling two pints of 'shine, there was such public outcry, within and without the State, against the severity of the law that the Legislature last year made changes which took liquor law violations out of the category of life offenses. For a fourth liquor offense the penalty was fixed at the term to which Governor Green has now reduced the sentences of the five "lifers...