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...urchins about to be let out of school. With thermometers at 91° during the final Conference session, many delegates preferred to sip long drinks at the bar downstairs, leaving their places empty. Those who sat and sweltered whispered jokes among themselves as leading Conference delegates read its swan songs. Depending on the swan, the song was either acrid, gloomy, polite or optimistic. Swans...
...their services in keeping the sons of prominent families in college and the plight of the puritanical "sub-deb" is lamented from the stand-point of Manhattan paganism. An interesting review of a recent novel about pre-Harkness Harvard by George A. Weller '29, describes the book as the "swan song of the old houseless Harvard already strange to this succeeding college generation." Strange indeed it does seem already! A full-length article on the houses by one of the house head-tutors takes the house plan for granted and devotes itself mainly to recommending its extension to the Graduate...
...Harvard Lampoon will be given the air at 7.45 o'clock Saturday night over Station WBZ for a 15-minute pogrom of humorous jokes and music. C. J. Swan, president of the Boston Advertising Club, will be the master of ceremonies, and C. T. (Jerry) Smith, Jr., young Boston lawyer, will tell very many of his droll stories in his own way. Two trios and one quarto, all composed of ten Harvard undergraduates, will sing over...
...Varsity summary: PRINCETON HARVARD Swan, f.b. f.b., Watt James, l.w. l.w. Babbitt Stout, l.c. l.c., Meiklejohn Craig, r.c. r.c., Howard Halton, r.w. r.w., Potter Buffum, s.o.h. s.o.h., Sherman Duffus, h.b. h.b., Supper McAllen, f. f., Nazro Babcock, f. f., White Campbell, f. f., Oettinger Davis, f. f., Thorburn Reed, f. f., Armstrong Stewart, f. f., Oppenheinger Gillespic, f. f., Cadman Crook, f. f., Witmusch...
Irela has refused to face the fact that she is about to sing her operatic swan-song. No longer can she reach her high notes without taking a second breath but the reappearance of an ancient lover reminds her of the departed days when the students of St. Petersburg unhitched her horses and dragged her carriage through the streets. It takes the competition of a Spanish singer and a paralytic stroke to bring home the crushing truth: that she must henceforth pass her days in "farewell tours" singing numbers like "Comin' Thro' The Rye." Creditable indeed...