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...many years public speaking has been a torture to the stuttering Duke of York. Well known is the fact that in order to avoid saying "K-K-K-King" at moments of state he habitually refers to his father as "His Majesty." Specialists, remembering the Duke's extreme shyness as a child, have for years treated his stuttering psychologically, as caused by nervousness. The treatments were unavailing, His Royal Highness continued to splutter...
...Houses will bring a much larger number of men under one roof than there are in the usual Harvard dormitory, and every effort must be made to avoid the atmosphere of regularity and regimentation which is common under such conditions and reaches its height in the army barracks. This can only be done by spending much time and money in the arrangement of the furnishing. The House Masters have recognized this fact, but the economies and conveniences of management to be derived from having all-the furniture of a set pattern, as is the case in the Freshman dormitories, form...
...Francisco one Edward Hiebel was sued for $20,500 damages by Mrs. Alvena Marchant because he dropped telephone slugs down her back and she broke her leg in trying to avoid...
There was obviously no malice in the Lampoon's sally with an old tradition, and the editors of that organization did what they so often have neglected to do and took precautions to avoid even the appearance of evil. Immediately upon receipt of the fence they solemnly swore before the law that they intended to return the relic and so placed its seizure legally in the category of "prank". Few can cavil with the law's definition of the point and even fewer can avoid admitting that as a prank it was more than magnificent...
...Take it From Me," one must give all columnists "An Even Break." Whether you are "In Broken Fields" or not, travelling "Down the Line" invariably brings you to "Lining Them Up." But whoever has been courageous enough to get this far cannot avoid that bottom-of-the-column feeling...