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...befitting vacuocaputs. Do you think for a moment you can get away with that "etc., etc.,"? Must you confess you were stumped, or were you too lazy to look up any more Gentile names? Whichever it was, the "etc., etc.," was very derogatory and left the impression of, "Why bother to mention any more Gentiles? There are ever so many brilliant millions of Gentile composers," as you doubtlessly intended your note to effect...
...sportsman, clubman, orator, onetime (1924-27) president of the Harvard Club of Manhattan. He was a big man in his class at Harvard (1890), but not a P. B. K. man. His dissent, entitled "Fools Trespass When Angels Keep Off the Grass," appearing in the Harvard Advocate, did not bother with statistics. He did not try to prove ; he knew. ' He simply wielded his own bludgeon: "The Phi Beta Kappa men have apparently disappeared, and those who gave little promise in their studies at college seem to keep the Harvard flag flying and have taken important positions...
Penn was on the inside lane, Yale on the outside, and Columbia in the middle. On the course at the Schuylkill at Philadelphia, with its staggered start and its finish laid at an angle past a bend, the outside lane was much the hardest. But the course did not bother the Yale crew. It was in front when the three boats settled down after the racing start and it stayed in front, fighting off Columbia's sprints, to win by three quarters of a length. Penn was three lengths behind Columbia...
...journalistic nines of the two colleges will meet in their second annual diamond clash. The equipment of the rival teams will probably be more colorful than useful, catchers will catch without masks, base runners will worry little about hit and run or squeeze plays, and few people will probably bother to remember the score. Whatever the outcome, however--whether the game last four or fourteen innings--the occasion will be one of renewed friendships and general festivity on both sides...
...event, what Graham thinks about the Pope doesn't bother the Pope, the Holy church he represents, nor the millions of loyal Catholics...