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...Aesthetic Attitude," but it seemed wisest to top the selection with a hearty passage from Professor Boring's own history of psychology; in this were thirty-seven indexed subjects under the head Vision, but never a glimpse of Night Vision. So the Vagabond gave up, feeling a bit wilted and dilettante, perhaps a little foolish; psychology, he decided, conceals pitfalls for the best-intentioned investigator...
...unlooked-for bit of spleen was vented by the Typographical Union, which denounced Father Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit, radio preacher, for building his Shrine of the Little Flower with non-union labor, printing his tracts in non-union plants, advocating the open shop. The typographers asked the Federation "to find him no longer entitled to financial support from any trade unionist...
...Coach Casey was determined to check up on his groundwork. Five aerials were attempted and none completed. A spectacular spinner play put in its appearance, or rather, attracted unusual attention by reason of its effectiveness, and Harvard managed to rip open the Wildcats' line for long gains on this bit of deception...
Coach Casey must have been a bit concerned just the same over the running weakness, for several shifts in the backfield are on the schedule for the Wildcat--last week it was the Bobcats--tilt. The one thing that everyone will be watching today is the ability of the Crimson outfit to gain consistently through the line. It seemed to us that the lightness of Bates' backs held the Lewiston outfit to a small yardage more than the play of the Harvard linemen. The little fellows were stopped by sheer weight...
...Conant's shyness, the big note in the Transcript's stories of last year, has not disappeared over the summer. Probably it has increased a bit, as the following piece of news should prove. Needing a secretary in his new job, President Conant was given the name of Vernon Munroe, '31. Vernon was summering on the Cape, when he received a call from Cambridge. The ensuing conversation was on this order...