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General Hugh S. Johnson's disposition was made no sweeter because he had to spend the week-end in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital having an abscess treated. But the abscess that troubled his flesh was less sore than a flock of boils which last week broke out on the hide...
Clocked at four minutes, 21 seconds over the half-mile downstream course, George W. Oettle '36 led the field of 13 in the wherry trials for the Spring Soulling Regatta yesterday. Winners of the two other heats, and qualifiers for the finals on Friday are Albert G. Sweeter '37 and Thomas C. Hunt '37. Because of his close and Thomas C. Hunt '37. Because of his close second to Oettle in the second heat, Richard H. Harris, Jr. '37 is also entered in the finals...
...intervals in the program, perhaps the most alluring was Miss Joan Dare, but other members of the audience loudly held that Miss Nora (Hotcha) Ford outstripped them all. As for their vocal efforts at popular songs, one must confess that while those heard were sweet, those unheard were sweeter...
...These mutual attributions of disaster may faintly indicate the loss that threatens the republic of letters if such precious manifestations of the undergraduate comic spirit are to vanish. In "college humor" there is a subtle, ethereal quality that differentiates it from all other brands. What, for example, could be sweeter, gentler, more Lamblike than the intimation of The Brown Jug, Brown University's jester, that the Holy Cross footballers dug their teeth into the corpuses of the Brunonian eleven? Evidently college education softens the manners and clothes academic drollery with incomparable grace. The New York Times...
...hard." Pride of the collection are a group of early 19th Century clubs from the bench of the late great Hugh Philip of Scotland. "Just as fine a piece of skill this chap Philip had with golf clubs as Stradivari with his violins. There is nothing sweeter than some of his sticks. Fact is, every one of them I got is a treasure. Thank the Lord golf sticks can't be turned out like ice boxes. . . ." The Virginia gentry who will soon have a chance to see the work of the Stradivari of golf must thank a New Yorker...