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...rather few and far between. The scorn of the chorus girl for the impecunious First National Bank which didn't have $35 to pay a check, returning it marked "No Funds," was a fine bit of sarcasm. Except for occasional flashes like this the action was inclined to drag...

Author: By M. P. B., | Title: "POOR LITTLE RITZ GIRL" IS FIRST OF SUMMER PIECES | 6/3/1920 | See Source »

...accomplices, giving a different name and card each time, sells the cloth. To disarm suspicion, they often mention the name of a well-known student as recommending them, and also speak of various Boston tailors. Though they have several times been apprehended, they have always escaped, through political drag and the size of the gang, without severe punishment. Several students have already reported being swindled, but if men are on their guard, the menace is slight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beware of Cloth Swindlers | 6/2/1920 | See Source »

Perhaps the most spectacular of the events will be the tug-of-war. Two teams, made up of 20 riders apiece, will try to drag each other across the arena floor in an allowed time of 1 minute and 20 seconds. Military Science 1, composed entirely of Freshmen, and Military Science 2, composed entirely of upperclassmen, will make up the two units...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELD ARTILLERY UNIT TO HOLD GYMKANA IN ARMORY | 5/14/1920 | See Source »

...number of cigars, cigarettes, and pipes smoked daily by these men varies considerably. In the case of cigarettes we find that five drag at only one each per day, and that the number of men who smoke an increasing number of cigarettes per day mounts until sixteen Freshmen claim to consume five each day. Although the popularity of greater numbers of weeds decreases from here on, hero is an exception in the case of those who smoke ten per day, for eighteen confessed to the accusation. Four men puff at the rate of twenty every twenty-four hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only 132 of Class of 1923 Smoke Out of 513 Given Physical Exams. | 11/26/1919 | See Source »

...practice alone. We should have a mass meeting at once, so that the students body may familiarize themselves with the words. If this is done we will be able to practice and appear in a more creditable manner at the remaining games. If "Harvard Indifference" allows this matter to drag along until a week before the Princeton game, we are liable to receive a severe jolt, which will come too late. WILLIAM E. HARRIS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Mass Meeting at Once. | 10/21/1919 | See Source »

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