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...true that some motors are difficult to warm up without being raced a bit, but the noise lovers, infatuated with their glorified rattle, do not stop at this, but race it again and again, to the torment of all within two blocks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I Lift Up My Finger | 6/3/1930 | See Source »

Although recent tilts in the Cambridge field of humor have been a bit disappointing, it appears from a story found in a recent issue of the "Daily Princetonian" that true wit has not yet died. It seems that two editors of the enterprising "Cornell Sun", determined to achieve the hoax of the year, produced a fiction by the name of Hugo N. Frye the founder of the Republican Party in New York State, and decided to hold a Sesquicentennial celebration in his honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONGRESSIONAL LAUGH | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...interesting, if a bit discouraging, to see them bow to the powers that be, as low as they accuse the Lampoon editor of bowing. We can only surmise their laughter up their sky-flung praises of our noble mayor. Or how they may wonder dubiously how much of the Tercentennial funds actually went to glorify the founders of this commonwealth, forbears of a race which has apparently relinquished the trying reins of Boston government to a more American type of statesmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long Live the King | 5/29/1930 | See Source »

...three of the five members usually find themselves on the Council for the next year, and since there are three vacancies yet to be filled, I sincerely believe that the final makeup of the Council will be practically the same, though I will admit that the method looks a bit round about and is unusual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Council Elections | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...secretary, respectively, of the Eli chapter. It is likely that these two will form the opposing battery. A. W. Samborski '26, Director of Intramural Athletics has offered to umpire the game so that the battling intelligentsia will have the benefit of experienced judgment. That the two fraternities are a bit ashamed of the baseball they might exhibit was shown by the fact that they were both reticent about publicity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarly Nines Take Field as Eli and Crimson Phi Beta Kappas Play Annual Game--Brainy Batsmen Perform at 3.30 O'Clock | 5/23/1930 | See Source »

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