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Frankfurter's much-touted but withal mysterious influence with the Roosevelt Administration has been of the same indirect sort as his influence on the law. While other professors have snatched eagerly at the opportunity to occupy prominent posts in the government. Frankfurter has consistently resisted efforts to drag him into the limelight. If rumor be true, he turned down the Attorney-Generalship. In any case he was offered and declined the post of Solicitor General and several other legal offices connected with the new administrative agencies in Washington, positions whose incumbents regularly take the spotlight from cabinet members...
...conflict in this question remains, however, between the almost universal demand for athletic recognition among lightweight men, and the claims of exclusively inter-House football. Quite excusably the petitioners are not overwhelmed by the attractions of House football, more popular this year among the heavyweights, and withal far less developed in the style of its game. Even last year only 25 per cent or less of the 150-pound squad played House football before the team's organization. In this connection one should overlook neither the tremendous increase in the popularity of crew following the creation of light Varsity...
...seems a little chauvinistic of Mr. Wells to plunge the Irish deeper than any other nation into the abyss of economic collapse; he takes a malicious joy in attributing the ruin of New York to its jerry-built skyscrapers. Yet these are but minor points--some well taken, withal. Such details must occasionally be wildly wrong; such detail is of utmost necessity to the interest and vividness of the prediction...
...call of the desert and a wily philandering Arab in the person of Ramon Navarro. The story is old, the treatment is older, and not even a trio of the best second-rate stars in Culver City can give any more glamour to the exhausted Sahara, but withal "The Barbarian" now playing at the University Theatre in the Square is entertaining in a mild harmless...
...courtyard of Eliot House there frisks daily a furry and appealing little dog, owned by one of the tutors, which pathetically represents the unattained and perhaps unattainable House spirit of general camaraderie and friendliness. The actual spirit of Eliot House is more nearly personified by the intelligence, independence, and withal occasional warm-heartedness of Professor Matthiessen's cat, which lives on terms of cold tolerance with the mice that disport themselves about the dining room...