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Bravely overcoming Anglo-Saxon prejudice, Admiral Kelly absorbed the piece of tail that was his portion, suffered no ill effect. A bit of the neck went to Chu Chao-hsin, Inspector General of Foreign Affairs in the Canton Government, who ate it with relish and promptly died. Doctors opined that he had swallowed a bit of "poisonous bone," doubtless poisoned by gland secretion...
...course is, from a cultural aspect, one of the most valuable of the many language courses open to Freshmen. The second half-year's work, which anyone may take, as a half-course, takes up the important poets Horace and Catullus. Catullus is treated summarily as a tid-bit which may be more thoroughly digested by those who choose to take Latin 1. The Odes of Horace are read and discussed in an almost scholarly manner, and the student is given an opportunity to commit to memory all the more masterly verses of the learned poets superlative erotic and philosophical...
...still a bit too early to judge by concrete results, but if the Headmaster's report is to be credited, Exeter has apparently found the happy medium between the hickory and sugar-lump theories of secondary education. The Harkness Plan is by no means a new one, but it gains real significance through the high standing of the school which has adopted it and the intelligence with which, to all appearances, it is being executed...
...Editor relinquished her reluctantly, glad that she was so popular, but just a bit jealous. After all, stags don't pay a full price, and why should they cut in on someone else's expenditures. He glanced back, and realized that she did dance divinely, and looked a bit more beautiful tonight . . . it couldn't be just clothes. There was Freddie. Freddie had made the punch, and had been under the necessity of tasting it. Perhaps it would be better to avoid Freddie...
...show was closed before it had run its allotted number of performances. This came as a great surprise to all those connected with the production, and earnest pleas were made for a reconsideration of the censorship of a play which dramatic critics had considered a really superb bit of playwriting. The club decided to let the matter drop, however, and to carry on as before...