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Yesterday was a routine day, consisting mostly of work on fundamentals and assignment drills, topped off by a scrimmage late in the afternoon between Team C and the Jayvees. This little tiff, which was both offensive and defensive, was staged to give those who had failed to get into the scrimmage on the day before, a chance to show their wares...
...violent tiff is in prospect tonight when the Liberal Club meets for the annual election of officers in the Lowell House Common Room at 8 o'clock, and a new spark was added to the fight already going on within the ranks of the Club when Thomas H. Quinn '36, President, last night announced his intention of retiring from that office...
...their bread as a surgeon; nor for her beauty--"her nostrils . . . a little painful," he wrote, "her mouth is bad and good, her Profile better than her full face . . . her hands bad-ish, her feet tolerable." He did not even love her for her guile: they had many a tiff over a ball-room brave, and he reproached her with being a minx, "calling people such names...
Yesterday, we are reminded, was September 22, anniversary date of President Lowell's tiff with the traffic constabulary of Plymouth, Mass. It is not inappropriate to relate here a little incident which occurred shortly after. Lowell had just finished his opening address to the Freshman class. A roar of hand-clapping accompanied him from the New Lecture Hall platform. Shaking his head with wonted vigor, the President grinned, and remarked to a companion, "Apparently the Freshmen don't think any less...
...Manhattan are many preachers who are well aware of the Press. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner of Broadway Temple has held baseball services, a Jiggs & Maggie service. He is almost always willing to help the Hearstpapers pick a Typical American Girl. Dr. William Norman Guthrie's tiff with Bishop William Thomas Manning over "dance rituals" kept them both in the headlines for days (TIME, Feb. 8). Rev. Charles Francis Potter of the First Humanist Society described for gumchewers the last hours of Murderer Francis Crowley (TIME, Feb. 1). But very rarely does publicity attach itself to vigorous, wavy-haired Dr. Robert...