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Whether the Harvard undergraduate desires to be harnessed with silken leading strings or allowed the free reins of natural social intercourse, it is evident that the older generation of graduates sentimentally think of him in terms of the pre-war Harvard of their youth. The younger graduate would be the better authority on the problem of how sadly the modern Harvard man needs the House Plan...
...guest steps next into an oval room done in blue and gold. Formal gilt chairs stand at attention along the silken walls. The north end of the room is roped off with a plush cord, behind which, beholding the spectacle, stands an especially splendid group of persons, the prime guests of the evening...
...academic slavery have been borne long and patiently by the students of Harvard, but it remains for feminine wiles to solve the problem of servitude and point to an escape from the rules and regulations attendant upon procuring a higher education. The beautiful Bryn Mawr damsel lounging on her silken pillows until the Sabbath noon, a buttered roll in one hand and a volume of Aristotle in the other is a symbol of emancipation from the monotonous machinery of the modern institution of learning. Not to be outshone, the Wellesley intellectual blows smoke rings in the safety of a Boston...
...Washington many an inquisitive glance has been cast toward the tiny, exquisite person of Mme. Katsuji Debuchi, wife of the newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. It is known that Mme. Dubuchi in her home wears the flowered silken kimonos of Japan's ancient mode, and that her hair is often coiled intricately in fashions ordained by a remote Japanese coiffeur. Certain insufficiently informed persons deduced there from that Mme. Debuchi was an old school Japanese woman, that she opposed the modern trend of her countrywomen toward emancipation...
...Feng is Feng-and even Mrs. Feng is of the same pioneer stuff. He has never worn a silken robe that she could cling to, nor has she ever tried to restrain his bold and virile Daniel Booning. He leads and she presides over his private army-a band of 150,000 pioneering soldiers, each one of whom knows a trade...