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Prices for tickets will be as usual: $5 for a stag, $7 for a couple. First-year men are requested to return as soon as possible the postcards which will soon be sent out; Tuesday, April 28 is the last date at which they can be accepted. The dance is open only to members of the Freshman class, with the exception of the chairman and sub-chairman of last year's committee...
...Stag Debate (Cont...
...When Stag-Huntress Mrs. E. Wimbush of Bagborough, England lately expressed her affection for stags, the revered Manchester Guardian attempted to point out the error of the Wimbush way (TIME, March 23). Many another staghounding organization took umbrage, wrote letters flaying the Guardian. But the Guardian's editors have not yet been convinced that stag-hunting is a sublimated form of kindness to animals. Answered the Guardian...
...disregard such arguments as the suggestion that hunting saves the stag from dying 'in old age of starvation from loss of teeth'-to accept that might be to run the risk of being invited to hunt old-age pensioners on the ground that we should not only spare them the pain of toothache but also reduce the burden on the National Exchequer. It is about as convincing as the suggestion, supplied by a peer of the realm in a pamphlet recently put out by the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, that the stag deserves to be hunted because...
Then one night Julius Abbey was found dead after one of his stag parties. When an autopsy disclosed arsenic in his stomach everyone was sure Melton had murdered him. Even her sophisticates thought she was guilty, but they were loyal, only admired her the more. Things looked black for Melton at the trial, but at the last minute a dying man's false affidavit acquitted her. The sophisticates were overjoyed, had a higher old intellectual time than ever. Three of them wanted to marry her and take a chance on being her next victim. Of Melton's three...