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Independently arrived at, Cartoonist Low's bulbous "Colonel Blimp" uttered his first upper-class fatuities in the London Evening Standard in April, 1934. Cartoonist Batchelor's fat, silk-hatted "Old Deal" first appeared in the New York Daily News...
Harvard buildings from the incendiary view fall generally into three classes. First are those, like the Houses, which are fireproof. In the upper-class dormitories not only are there a large number of telephones, but also in each janitor's office is a map of Cambridge's 15 Harvard boxes, while the caretakers are themselves instructed in the fine points of ringing in an alarm...
Many a Princeton undergraduate was mystified one morning last fortnight when he read this manifesto in the Daily Princetonian. Members of Terrace Club, upper-class eating sodality, were not so puzzled. The dank midwinter in semi-isolated Princeton is a tedious time. Between long games of Monopoly and billiards and work on an honors thesis about Machiavelli, Senior Lewis Jefferson Gorin, a small, grave Terrace member, had fallen to brooding about the way his elders and betters run the world. In the midst of these reveries, Congress had voted to cash the soldiers' Bonus in full ten years before...
...brief period before filling their applications last year, they instituted an experiment which should be extended. Development of this policy will not only give a man greater leisure in which to judge the merits of his future place of residence but will also enable him to associate with upper-class friends and thereby feel closer akin to the College...
...year is the time for experiment. It will be successful if a man has learned what he wants to do. Whether he wins posts and honors is comparatively unimportant if the longer view is kept in mind, for unquestionably the first year is the skirmishing ground for the three upper-class years...