Word: wastebaskets
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...mail and the CRIMSON reporter had just come to the Newburyport Town Hall and "Bossy" Gillis was busy. Between his knees stood a wastebasket, rapidly filling with the spoils of the morning...
...this guy E. W. A. K.? What a fool he must be." The wastebasket moved a trifle. "These guys sure do bawl me out." Another letter capped the debris in the basket. The telephone rang...
Dropping politics into the wastebasket along with another letter, "Bossy" withdrew education again. "If I'd wanted to, I coulda been one of the best college students goin'. I got the bug on law. I'd really show some of them buzzards if I was a lawyer. Prohibition, now I used to argue for prohibition, but it's just a damn farce the way it's going now. We oughta be free, and do what we want to. What's the Statue of Liberty for, anyway...
...station in South Africa finds its way into a prominent place in the evening newspapers under the heading. "Harvard Will Have Largest Telescope in Southern Hemisphere." That is news. But what great things that telescope discovers about the heavens will continue to find their way to the wastebasket. Are they too far away...
...from the curriculum or at least made an elective. This plea the Faculty decisively rejected. President Sidney E. Mezes sat down and wrote an announcement of his colleagues' decision. One Felix S. Cohen, editor of the undergraduate paper, The Campus, threw the President's announcement into the wastebasket and refused even to mention in his publication the result of the Faculty vote...