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...foundation on which to build. Furthermore, a system of admission based on legal aptitude tests as well as on college records might well be adopted. Thus the selection of better trained men could be secured and the present practice of dropping a large number after giving them an expensive whirl in Cambridge could be done away with...
...whirl and a dash around Boston. Take hundreds of taxis, pay hundreds of taxi-drivers. Lights, bad music, bad drinks, enthusiasm subsides. Dash around a little more and home...
...completely unbossed attitude of a large part of this country with regard to Harvard affairs was shown recently by the author of one of those mass production, pre-fabricated political columns called, "The National Whirl gig." At the time of the Tercentenary, when even the most crabbed of Boston reporters were lulled into amiability by Harvard's antiquity and learning, one columnist gave birth to a unique interpretation of the exercises in the Yard. It appears under the straightforward, no-foolin' title, "Out in the Rain...
...about it in a characteristic whirl of action. Without a pause after his day & night labors at the Cleveland convention, the new chairman sped to Chicago, to Topeka, to New York, to Washington; in July swung through New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Back in Chicago, he set up a sketchy national headquarters, bundled his personal staff into a ten-passenger airplane, flew West. In 17 days, during which he averaged three speeches per day and four hours sleep per night, he swept 6,500 miles through 16 States...
...marriage ceremonies. All the ghetto rabble was there, begging for alms, food, drink. One gay interlude came when a ragged peasant orchestra evoked a reedy little tune from the big band in the pit. Thereafter the tension grew grimmer. The beggars danced madly while Leah swept in to whirl despairingly with a groveling hunchback, a hideous, pawing old crone. Rocca's orchestra reached a frenzied climax as Leah faced her bridegroom, suddenly screamed like one gone mad. Just as abrupt was the hush when the verdict was passed. "A dybbuk has her ... a dybbuk, a dybbuk. . . ." Curtain went down...