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...Vagabond spent yesterday morning in a vain effort to solve the problem of his rooming accommodations for this year. The best location, judged from a physical standpoint, is the pump shack by Appleton Canyon in the Yard. But there the miniature landscape even now is cluttered by a few early Freshmen. One of them asked Mr. Apted, who was loitering around, if he would care to join him in a round of peewee golf; freshmen must band together, you know, we're all Harvard...
Paradoxically the case of Crown v. Kylsant is not, from a purely legal standpoint, either complex or remarkable. In lucid British fashion King's Councillor D. N. Pritt put the case last week at Guildhall thus...
From a purely fiscal standpoint, the case promised to be most complex. Vanloads of ledgers and papers will be produced by both sides. For example, every phase of the $10,000,000 Royal Mail 5% debenture bond issue of 1928 will be minutely examined, the Crown trying to prove that this was a barefaced swindle by the Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. He sold these shares, the Crown charges, by telling the public that Royal Mail was earning enough in 1928 to cover interest on the debentures five times, whereas for the past seven years the Royal...
...Princeton we are under a double handicap--a dissyllabic name and a thin, closed vowel (i) with which to start. Consequently, we cannot rival either the quick bark of "Yale!" or the slow sonority of "Harvard!" From the standpoint of effective vocalization "Prince-ton!" is what our British cousins would call a fair washout. What to do about...
Demurely Mme Litvinov replied: "Why, Lord Cushendun, haven't you heard? I am a Russian now. My husband is assistant commissar of foreign affairs." As though stung by a hornet, Lord Cushendun recoiled, never thereafter greeted Mme Litvinov more enthusiastically than by a curt nod. From the London standpoint she is a Tory journalist gone wrong, and "Mr. Harrison" should have remained a traveling salesman...