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...crew. The gradual emancipation of athletics as Harvard which has resulted in the present independence of their administrators, is also indicated by the appointment of Mr. Whiteside It is significant that his selection brings to Harvard a coach who can hardly be suspected of being under the thumb of alumni influence. It should be possible to keep the new slate of Harvard rowing clean of any such suspicion; and when this hope becomes an actuality, the outburst of traditional Bulletin patriotism will be accepted as perfectly justified...
...somewhat less than half-way in its present advocacy of the Classics as an essential part in the culture of an educated man. While Divisional Examinations have made obligatory for candidates in Literatures or History and Literature the study of two ancient authors, the student has been left to thumb his own way through the Biad and the Odyssey during the summer preceding his Senior year, and generally reaches the time of the examinations with inadequate preparation for them and no appreciation at all for the works he has studied. This may be argued back to the omnipresent evil...
...underworld calls Badman Burke "professor." He is a scientific felon, a specialist in safe door melting, wire tapping, hijacking, disguises. In his St. Joseph hideout were found chemistry and metallurgy textbooks, also 200 thumb-greyed detective novels, with criminals' blunders underlined...
...Best hater of Stresemann was Clemenceau. Last week Clemenceau was thumb-nailed by the only woman except his daughters to whom he left money (100,000 frs: $3,930), his stenographer, Mme. Pernoud...
...liner, was forced to crawl for two days at five knots per hour, pouring oil on the water. In mid-ocean a gigantic wave set the ship nearly on its beam ends, knocked two teeth from the jaw of Monsignor William McKean of Bernardsville, N. J., broke the right thumb of one "Peppy" d'Albrew, Broadway tangoist. At that instant Col. Sam Park, famed socialite U. S. Vice Consul at Biarritz, was being shaved by the ship's barber. Only the barber's steady hand saved him from instant decapitation. As it was, his consular lip was badly gashed. When...