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University life in Germany is reported to be no longer a round of resplendent corps, sabre-duelling, and good beer. The students returned from the trenches with no money and no clothing except their uniforms, and found themselves crowded into dormitories, twenty in a room accommodating six. This would be hailed in America with undisguised comments of "Serve 'em right!" were it not for an interesting result...
...weeks Harvard-in-the-stands has shown the need of stimulant. The spirit in the cheering sections has been of the near-beer variety. The team has wanted support and has received it to the extent of a "regular Harvard cheer" or so when called for; but the Yale game will not be won in the "regular" way. What is needed is everything that every man has in him, from the team the kind of playing that refuses to admit a check; and from the rest of the College whole-hearted, spontaneous support...
Crew B.--Bow, Krumbaar; 2, Heussey; 3, Righter; 4, Iselin; 5, Storey; 6, Tilt; 7, Merriam; stroke, Merrill; cox., Beer...
...Sussex towns and people too, from these intimate, if unconventional vantage points. One feels very "knowing", and not a little thrilled at the experience. Mr. Lyons is a "collector of favor able British types", using favorable in the sense of correct and current. The new landed aristocracy, gross as beer barrels and uncouth as hedge hogs, comes in for a bit of trenchant panning. And the Horatio Bottomleys of Sussex are flayed with but little less vigour...
...conceivably can--the tragedy of an independent Englishman without his whisky and soda! The conception, however, may become the more awful actuality. From far Australia the soft padding of Mr. Johnson's paws are clearly audible in London; and in London, thirsty longshoremen have voluntarily foregone their beer. To the unfortunate students of literature at Cambridge we extend our sympathy; to them undoubtedly has fallen the unpleasant lot of having Sir Arthur's doctrines forced down their throats. They can reject them and become threadbare hack-writers; or swallow them and attain the airy pinnacles reached...