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Amid a low huzza of Bronx cheers a gallant one-hundred-and-six Harvard men heard themselves fined for parking violations Saturday morning. Unfortunately they have no complaint, for their arrests were lawful, and there is no reason why they should have been warned, knowing Cambridge police as they do. However there should be some place where students can park their cars over night without submitting to the efficient mulcting administered by the more convenient of the Harvard Square garages...
...White House. Blockaded? the Presi dent and his family lived on tinned beef and dried apricots until, at the crucial moment, Julius, the missing Secretary, re appeared. He brought with him Man- That-Jumps-Like-a-Flea, an Osage Indian who was to save them all. The complaint of the raging mob outside was that Throttlebottom, the Vice President, had not a Constitutional amount of Indian blood. A transfusion appeased the mob and the day was saved. Ex-President Wintergreen concludes: "I had done my duty by America and ... I'd be damned if I'd do it again...
Beyond the veils of psychological difficulties, of men less seeking to satisfy desire than in search of desire to satisfy, Author Wescott catches glimpses of economic difficulties now & then. With so much trouble dead ahead, one looks for less complaint, more cure. But the only cure offered is the one proposed by Tolstoy's peasant, who, when Tolstoy interrupted his plowing to ask him what he would do if he knew that the world was next day coming to an end, scratched his head and answered, "I would plow...
...addressed to Delmar Leighton '19, permanent dean of the Freshman class, who has notified almost twenty students of the proposed action. The request has been received with much enthusiasm in several dormitories, and it is expected that most of the class will subscribe. This will be the first collective complaint that has been made to University Hall by the class...
...readers of last Sunday's New York Mirror magazine section blinked in bewilderment at the fertile genius of the make-up man who had coupled Painter Jean Francois Millet's famed '"Gleaners" with an article by Kathleen Norris. Substance of Author Norris' article was a complaint that employers are unfair to married women, fill jobs with unmarried women. "Idleness," pleaded the writer, ''and the lack of means of self-expression is one of the great evils of woman's lot. The thought that she will have to content herself with arranging flowers, ordering...