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Harvard "viewers-with-alarm" now view with alarm a disintegration of classes once out of College. It is felt that the spirit of kinship among members of classes under the Crimson banner, and the spirit of loyalty to the old school, are growing less marked than were their wont. Such a feeling makes itself most readily manifest in the failure of Classes of the more recent vintage to make good on all occasions towards the Harvard Fund...
These barnacles are wont to lounge against the fence rails and on street corners, coyly ensnaring students into parting with their pasteboards to the game in return for a consideration--usually a very substantial consideration. The worst feature of their attack is that they are doing no end of damage to the game-crop, not only to seriously tempting a few money-mad students but much more important, in undermining the reputation of the H. A. A. for fair, impartial distribution of said pasteboards. On the opposite are of this vicious circle is the public. They too are suffering...
...people, as ridiculously touchy after all, as our letters to the editor seem to indicate? If so, it would seem that the flip tail-twisting in which TIME is wont to indulge is a distinctly beneficial antidote. It appears that the public capacity for getting insulted is expanding, and crowding out, in the process, our much-vaunted American sense of humor...
...first speech as the nation's leader, "The Unknown" Chamberlain not for the first time revealed a flair for the sardonic.* Of retired Stanley Baldwin he said: "His love of truth wavered only occasionally, when, with a deceit which soon ceased to deceive anybody he was wont to describe himself as a plain, ordinary man. . . . Many comparisons have been made between Baldwin and other great Prime Ministers. For my part I have often thought that, making all due allowance for differences of education and upbringing and country, he comes nearest to Abraham Lincoln...
Clochemerle had been without this convenience for more than 1,000 years, but use & wont was not the difficulty. Unfortunately for peace, the worst old maid in town had her window very near by. Her complaints merely attracted more unseemly goings-on than ever. A merciless churchgoer, she embroiled the gentle parish priest in her quarrel, soon had all Clochemerle divided into Urinophobes and Urinophiles. Scandals grew and burgeoned, culminating in a near-riot in the church itself. After that, disasters followed fast. Jealous citizens from a neighboring village came by night, blew up the urinal; the Government, with mistaken...