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...presume that Mr. E. Waldo Long in his letter to the Transcript, still counts himself among those who excuse their acts on the grounds of puerility. At least, he leads us to think so when he attacks an editorial in the CRIMSON "as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books" and in the same "criticism" tells us that "the surprising thing is that adults bother to take it seriously, instead of ignoring it as the students do themselves." But perhaps Mr. Long really believes what he has written is not the "bother of adults...
...surprising to find that sort of editorial in a college paper, because undergraduate editors have a flair for making asses of themselves from time to time. The surprising thing is that adults bother to take it seriously instead of ignoring it as the students themselves do. E. Waldo Long Boston Transcript
...Yale's annual Tap Day (senior society elections), held last week, the first man chosen by Scroll & Key was Woodruff R. Tappen, junior varsity stroke oar, tapped by Paul Mellon, son of the Secretary of the Treasury. The seventh man chosen by Skull & Bones was Waldo W. Green, football captain-elect, tapped by George Harris Crile, son of Dr. George W. Crile, famed Cleveland physician whose clinic was last week a scene of catastrophe...
...bequeathed to the City of Cambridge a fund the income of which was to be spent annually in providing one or more series of talks of highest character on literary or scientific subjects. Among the notable Dowse lecturers in the past have been Edward Everett in 1811, Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1821, Charles Summer in 1830, Wendell Phillips in 1831, and Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1861. In 1927 the course was given by Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, and in 1928 by Professor A. T. Davison...
...Liberty cut air funnels toward San Juan, Porto Rico. From that point a tangential trip was made to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Governor Waldo E. Evans played host. Bewailed was the lack of famed Virgin Island rum, but St. Thomas is U. S. territory. Back in San Juan, Publisher Patterson and Daughter Alicia paid a call on Governor Horace M. Towner, who still hears hurricanes in his ears. During the following evening some gasoline floating on the harbour water exploded. Engineer Sutter was blown off the nose of the Liberty. Radioman Roe came hurtling out of the cabin...