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...beat, on account of various threats of brickbats through a window and caffein tablets in the soup of the man who seemed to be carrying his class to victory. There is a room in Still-man infirmary and two trained nurses held in readiness for the first to succumb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/24/1929 | See Source »

...immensely difficult thing to understand about such a Barnum harvest is the faith that guides college graduates year and again to succumb to a few whispered words and a brandished engraving. As traditionally gun-shy as the individual is who can afford fifty dollars for an hour's entertainment, the "con" men, the street-corner shysters, the alley speculators find him feeble when excluded by a Stadium wall. A trite fiction hoods a pillar of State Street. A hurried phrase woos a yellow back from a bond salesman. The racket flourishes as the bay tree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SING WILLOW | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...survey, conceived we must believe, in a vengeful spirit, shows that Harvard men far from shunning their Cambridge neighbors, far from ignoring the fact of their existence, succumb in swathes at the first discreet mating call heard from them following Commencement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MATING CALL | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

Harvard men have traditionally considered themselves immune to the charms of the feminine division of the University, but this blind confidence has been proven groundless. Indeed statistics recently acquired show that no inconsiderable part of the undergraduate body succumb to the attractions of their Cambridge neighbors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey Brings to Light Radcliffe Fondness for Selecting Harvard Husbands--Four out of Five Marry College Men | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

...assistants are accused of reducing their diagnoses of spiritual sufferings to bad sex habits. The weak-chinned element in schools and colleges, full of relief at finding so plain a focal point for their self-betterment ambitions or so simple a seeming cause for all their adolescent agonies, succumb readily to the "spiritual surgery" which follows this easy diagnosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buchmanites | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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