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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was obviously no malice in the Lampoon's sally with an old tradition, and the editors of that organization did what they so often have neglected to do and took precautions to avoid even the appearance of evil. Immediately upon receipt of the fence they solemnly swore before the law that they intended to return the relic and so placed its seizure legally in the category of "prank". Few can cavil with the law's definition of the point and even fewer can avoid admitting that as a prank it was more than magnificent...
...would be impractical to carry on the work only this far, owing to certain engineering difficulties. To fall down at this point would mean Harvard's loss of this much-needed building. Negotiations between the H. A. A. and the College authorities followed; it was decided to draw upon the reserve coffers of the A. A. for the construction of the plant up to the top floor. The impracticability of such action was once again brought forward and this time the Corporation voted the B. A. A. freedom to draw on its surplus for the building's completion. The total...
...several hotels in the Boston district does not in any way excuse Harvard from trying to find reasonably priced rooms in Cambridge for her visitors and giving these facilities adequate publicity. The high prices of the hotels and the definitely restricted number of their rooms place an obligation upon some Harvard organization to put at the disposal of her visitors some sort of accomodation intermediate between that offered by the study floor and the de Luxe Hotel suite to be reserved two weeks in advance...
...that it dares for a moment or so to indulge in just a trace of satire. There is for example the episode when Mr. Jack Oakie, as a hoofer turned freshman, discovers that the Alma Mater song of his school is too dirge-like for his taste. There upon he writes a jazz version of his own, which he calls "Alma Mammy" and sings in his best Jolson manner before the assembled students. Even the football game is not taken too seriously for instance the dumb and lethargic Swedish tackle becomes the hero of the battle because his sweetheart playfully...
Building at Yale is keeping pace with educational development in general. The degree of completion ranges all the way from the new Sterling Library, which is now nearly finished, to plans for the housing of about 1,000 undergraduates who are at present but poorly accommodated. While not entering upon the so-called House Plan, as developed at Harvard, still Yale in its new Human Welfare Group is starting an educational and social experiment which may prove to have just as wide reaching effects...