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...history and economics -- we cannot even read the morning paper without utilizing them. Yet Latin rather lacks these vital, essential qualities, for seldom does a situation arise in modern life which requires its services. We live, not in the faraway days of Rome, but in the tumultuous and perplexing whirl of the twentieth century. We must prepare our young men to meet these complex conditions...
...relaxation and refreshment. This is the wherefore of holidays. Moreover, at least once during the academic session, it is necessary that the student take himself away from Cambridge and wash from him completely the dust of every day. He needs to forget temporarily the grind of study and the whirl of his petty activities among family surroundings, in the luxury of plum pudding debauches, and playing the social lion in his home town...
With bands playing, pennanis waving, people cheering, the second of the annual baseball contests between the CRIMSON and the Yale News finished in a whirl of dust on Saturday. In the ninth the dauntless sons of the CRIMSON snatched themselves from defeat by a two-run batting rally, and in the eleventh pushed themselves to the pedestal of victory by pounding in four more tallies, a lead which the News fought vainly to out down. The final score, 10 to 9. tells the story. The CRIMSON had only one regret and that was in taking the game from hosts...
Only the 300 Seniors, more or less, who survived the picnic at Nantasket Point yesterday, can realize what a golden haze the absentees missed. From the time the "King Philip" left the wharf until the last car deposited its cargo at the Square, there was one whirl of pleasure...
People who come to Cambridge in June for the most part want to see the University, and not a mad whirl of muslin, and ice-cream, and ivy-orations. The older people would welcome the change, and shall we say that girls would sicken of us in three short days...