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This article is designed for the incoming Freshman who three weeks from few will be unpacking his trunk in Cambridge, secure in the ascetic belief that his next three or four years will be spent with his nose deep in books. It is inteded for the Freshman who thinks Harvard is all hard work, who is going to give up going with women and stick to the intellectual discipline of the University. It is for the man who thinks that he will, perforce, be faithful to his hometown love and will never have a chance to relax with the belles...
...graphic analogy, the Committee represented knowledge as a tree of which philosophy was the trunk, with the various fields as branches and the facts themselves as minute leaves. Harvard professors were criticized because many of them "seem to believe that then job is only to present as many as possible of the important facts in their field," without attempting to integrate these facts into more general material...
...sharply. The newsmen, fellows who always manage to be called to work on their own moving days, did not understand. They traced the license number on the maroon convertible, noted slyly that it belonged to perennial Youth Leader Joe Lash; they noted that a Navy truck had delivered a trunk...
...column: "Certain things seemed to me a little ludicrous. . . . The moving men tell me they are always busy, somebody moves every day in the year, so one would think that it would be something to which people were fairly well accustomed. ... A naval friend . . . sent in a trunk to be housed until he gets settled. Another friend lent Mrs. Roosevelt a car, and all this was headline, front-page news...
...York's ex-State Supreme Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer and wife Elmo Lauer, who was given three months in jail in 1939 for smuggling, sued an insurance company for $5,604.50 as indemnity for the loss of a trunk. The trunk, they declared, contained eleven neckties worth $10 apiece, six hand-embroidered voile drawers worth...