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...educational trend, it is only another queasy kow-tow to the Oxford-Cambridge reliquary of worm-holed 16th century poppycock. Some judgment should be employed even in boot-licking. It is to be hoped that President Conant will curb the P. T. Barnum tendencies of the Department before any New York vaudeville engagements are made...
...Down with Dartmouth's Deep Blue Funk!" These words on an obscure handbill printed on sick blue paper, hit the Dartmouth campus at the end of September and aroused curiosity. After "funk" had been discussed, undergraduates began to realize that some supposedly tow-head bunch had an attitude about listlessness at Dartmouth. "Listlessness" is the favorite campus editorial word all over America these days. It is supposed to mean that the campuses have long ago left kid-shouting behind and have found no substitute...
...vigorous police drive against parking automobiles all night on Cambridge streets has been instituted this fall by Captain Joseph J. Donahue of the Cambridge police. "I'll clean the streets if I have to tow the cars away," stated the Captain, and then produced evidence that such had already been done...
...wait. He was eating a sandwich when "the tuna hit like an earthquake and then started out to sea like a torpedo." Fisherman Low braced himself in his leather harness for a fight that, was to last five hours, while his captain quickly hoisted anchor to let the fish tow the skiff around the ocean. For a mile he went out to sea, then turned and ran back, staying mostly on the surface. After an hour and one-half he shook himself so violently that the hook came out of his mouth-but caught again in his side, making...
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