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...these are effete days. Another contender, the pious Senator Brookhart, intends to read the Bible from cover to cover. It is an intriguing prospect to imagine the Gentleman from lowa slowly enunciating the Song of Solomon, while harassed stenographers record each word for the Congressional Record. Other Senators display more originality. Heflin, always genial and diverting, has chosen to lecture on "Egyptology". This subject, while peculiarly apropos in the Senate, is perhaps not quite as entertaining as some other things he might have chosen, such as the "Parody Outline of History", or as appropriate to the object of the filibuster...
Against such a display of arbitration mere mortals are helpless. The only resource left is an attempt at imagining oneself in the outfit decreed. "Peg-top" trousers and sport coats, Norfolk predominating, with "novelty" effects for street wear, and as capstone and keynote of the whole "a low, flat, derby hat with a small feather, preferably red or grey, tucked neatly on the left side"; and man is complete in all his glory. If the new styles find ready acceptance perhaps it would be well to garb even tender freshmen in somber caps and gowns...
Radio is transforming the otherwise harmless air into a veritable bucket-shop bedlam, with twenty-one thousand transmitting stations between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos of jazz-bands, sermons, crop reports, and sporting syndicates running simultaneously on the same wave lengths...
Today is the last day of the exhibition of drawings made by students in the School of Domestic and Landscape Architecture for Women. The display, which is under the auspices of the School of Landscape Architecture, will be open to the public today from nine to five in the Hall of Casts at Robinson Hall...
...team showed promise of considerable power, especially in the work of the forward line which is beginning to display and effective unity of attack which was a continual threat to the B. A. A. goal. Both teams scored frequently with the advantage of power slightly to favor of the more experienced Boston players. In the absence of Coach Claflin, Mr. Alfred Winsor '02 took charge of practice assisted by Mr. G. W. Canterbury...