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...courses slide like the quotations of a utility stock in 1929 no longer have to be told that the days when a course could go along on its own momentum are over. Undergraduates are becoming increasingly critical and observant, and their opinion, freely expressed, was the soap on the bathroom floor which sent Sociology A and Philosophy B skidding to destruction. The voice of the student body is becoming a factor of increasing importance in shaping the curriculum of the college...
...girl kept her growing secret, said nothing. Good Friday her labor began. The astounding fortitude of girls "in trouble'' sustained her, stifled her groans, betrayed her labor to her parents by not so much as a grimace. After her parents went to bed, she went to the bathroom. There, alone and without sound, crouching in a tormented daze, she bore her son. She thought, she swore in court last week, that he was born dead. After a rest the girl gathered her infant in her arms, mounted to the tenement roof. She walked to the neighboring airshaft, planning...
...Bathroom Humor...
Anyhow, none of that is important except as productive scholarship. The fact that bathroom humor is profitable is all that concerns the present generation, to whom it has indeed been more profitable than was ever before dreamed of. As an example of one man who struck when the iron was hot, consider the not inappropriately named Chick Sale. He made a fairly sizeable fortune by writing a rather dull book on nothing more exciting than a privy--it really isn't very exciting--and he sustained it by donning a false beard and making equivocal remarks for vaudeville audiences...
...despite the distinguished pedi- gree of bathroom humor, (the W.C. was invented in 1592 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Queen Elizabeth, according to the staff of History 1) it is still in bad odor with arbiters of public taste such as Will Hays. For example, no glimpse was to be had of this delightful piece of furniture in the bathroom scenery of "Swing Time." With some pleasure and no fear this department takes pleasure in offering a copy of its composite picture of allRepublicannomineesforpublicofficeattheNovemberelections to anyone who reports a bona fide instance of this item having appeared...