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...short, squat, bowlegged manifestation of dignity is waddling up Mass. Avenue towards the Square. He probably stops at the sign of Billings and Stover; for this is midafternoon, and the Professor must tighten his belt with the traditional milkshake. Emerging, he will puff out his lips, tap his black cane contentedly on the sidewalk, and roll on his way. Pausing a moment, he will reach into his pocket, pick out the cigar he had not smoked during some faculty meeting and give it to the blind news dealer. Again the puff, the cane, and the bow legs swing into action...
Just, however, as there would be something incongruous in Dink Stover's making his hideous blunder of giving two girls a lift in a straight-eight roadster, so Frank will look just a thought uncomfortable in the polo coat and pleated trousers of contemporary collegiate fashion. While he flourished mightily in an era when undergraduates sat along the campus fence and sang "Integer Vitae" and "Freshmen, Wake" of an evening, he could never be quite at home in the Dizzy Club while on a Manhattan week end, or participating in a perfumed and platinum Whitney Avenue cocktail party. A more...
...absentee voting, and prepared a report which has been published for use in the East by the Young Democratic Clubs of America. Harrington has distributed copies of the report in the following Cambridge business houses where they may be obtained: James W. Brine's Sporting Goods Store, Billings and Stover, and Arthur's Restaurant...
Everything was progressing with the happy and aimless inevitability natural to such situations. A few vegetables, a few soft heads, it was the usual time had by all in the usual manner. But tragedy stalked from Billings to Stover. The law injected a sordid note when the first cop pulled the first tear bomb. What had been valor and pleasantry became stark and earnest and the Freshmen wished they had never left home...
Class Day tickets may be secured by application only. Application blanks may be found at the Harvard Club of Boston and at Mahady and Co., on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston; also at the Coop, Brine's, Billings and Stover, the Union, Leavitt and Peirce's, Hazen's and at the H. A. A. in Cambridge...