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...Rabbi salves his conscience for going by promising to eat to the fall of the wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo, a justice of the peace, appropriately disguised as a fool, comes to the fair on the scent for "enormities" which he immediately begins to discover and try to correct; but he ends by getting himself well beaten on the suspicion of having cut Cokes's purse...
...Stephen O'Meara, Police Commissioner of Boston, will address the members of the Catholic Club tonight at 8 o'clock at a smoke talk in the Newman House. His subject will be "Correct Speaking as a Commercial and Professional Asset." The talk is open to all members of the University...
...Democratic Religion" Professor Zueblin throws the light of the best modern American thought upon some of the questions which present-day undergraduates find filling a large share of their more serious consideration. We venture to believe that in some respects the views of the undergraduates are more nearly correct under modern conditions than those of "the powers that be" in the University. An example will illustrate: We undergraduates believe, by democratic and thorough organization of all the undergraduate community into classes, teams, class dormitories, and the like, and with the whole strengthened by the presence of an untrammeled system...
...each other think up jokes. Apparently times have not changed, not the ways of candidates or editors in them. Yet jokes, like poets, are born, not made. Humor means, if anything, an irrepressible, sensitiveness to incongruities, and contradictions in things, unspirited, be it added, by any immediate desire to correct them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial in accent. The joke-in-general is a last despairing cry. The latter requirement, however, demands more than the humorous eye: there must be oddities-rough...
...proofs of the class lists for the University Catalogue will be taken down Monday, all members of the University who have not yet done so should immediately see that their names, classes, degrees, and addresses, both at College and at home, as printed on these lists, are correct, in order that no mistakes may be made in the annual Catalogue. Errors should not be corrected on the proof sheets, but should be reported as follows: in the College, Scientific and Graduate School lists at University 2; and in the Law School lists at the delivery desk in the reading room...