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...presidency of Antioch College, Dr. Morgan was obliged to rest his mind with a long vacation in Europe. The private view of many of his critics is that he needs to rest his mind again. The form, substance and manner of the case which he last week presented bore out no such view. He was calm, cogent, precise. He began by stating that he accused his colleagues of no dishonesty except intellectual dishonesty. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Morgan, Morgan & Lilienthal | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...people thronged the Danube banks when down the river, six miles to St. Margaret Island and back, steamed a procession of ten vessels from which sounded trumpet and organ music. In the steamers were cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, monks, nuns and laymen of the Roman Catholic Church. One boat bore, in a golden monstrance in an illuminated, glass-enclosed chapel, the Sacred Host. When Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State and Papal Legate to the 34th International Eucharistic Congress, held aloft the monstrance and pronounced the benediction, all was quiet along the Danube. A moment later boat whistles shrilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Eucharist in Budapest | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...over the plate to such a group of muscle merchants as Frisco Caspar, Flung Huey, and Greg Grupp. Bevies of base hits bounded through, around, and over such 'poon boys as Utrid, Tink, Poop, Twit, and Cuddlepoop. Since Feller missed his traveling connections, the entire CRIMSON executive board bore mound burdens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon's Carefare Cuffed as Crimson Spanks Ball to Win Annual Joust 23-2 | 5/20/1938 | See Source »

Despite these handicaps, Hall won the event with a score of 23. Harry F. Hinckley '40 was second with 25. The low scores of several entrants in this event bore evidence of their inability to hold both wavering gun and wobbling mirror steady at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hall Wins Shooting Contest In Memorial Hall Mimic War | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...physical anthropology at the Field Museum, had given a party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken, pregnant camel, whose nuisances were observed by tenants on the floor below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Capers | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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