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...specific social reaction." For example, the actor Charles Kean declared that when he was playing the part of a tyrant he ate pork; when he was playing a murderer, he ate beef, and when he was playing a martyr he ate mutton. The moral is clearly to avoid beef...
Students who purchase standing room at the H. A. A. will avoid standing in line at the Arena and will be admitted as soon as the doors are opened at 7.30. Also, since the number to be sold is limited, those who wait until evening may find themselves left outside...
...sleep in the morning. Mr. Conant described a few of the methods used, "Besides stealing the clapper, the boys used to tie up the bell with a rope. And in the wintertime they turned it upside down, filled it with water, and let it freeze." In order to avoid the padlocks, the usual method of access was to stand on the roof of Hollis, rope the Harvard chimney and come over on that. But one night, coming up the stairs, the "thieves" avoided the sheet-iron door by going around it. As old Jones used to say. "The boys tore...
...your cordial sanction, or every proclaimed desire to promote peace and prevent war becomes a hollow mockery." The same state of mind thus far has prevented ratification of the Harding-Hughes proposal that the United States adhere to the Permanent Court of International Justice, on conditions carefully devised to avoid membership in the League of Nations, although Mr. Harding declared "it is in harmony with platform pledges, candidatorial promises, and, I believe, with American aspirations", and added...
...inspiring traditions than a seven o'clock eye-opener have passed into oblivion. It is no longer considered quite the thing to demolish Mr. Conant's impregnable iron door and freeze the bell full of water--chiefly because it is no longer necessary to do this in order to avoid Chapel. But if it ever was desirable or necessary to arise at seven o'clock, that time like the days of one-horse shays and tallow candles, has fled. Pity the dexterous but unfortunate bellringer forever doomed to face the world while all of Harvard College lies sleeping...