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...football dinners, probation, prizes, scholarships, dropped Freshmen, goodies, boardwalks, the CRIMSON, the Advocate, the Lampoon, regulations and irregularities, grinds and loafers, Gentile and Jew, hour exams and Class Day--what good or evil phase in all our college life is there in which Briggs did not detect the human element, and in which he did not help in the making of manhood? Such a man may resign, but he cannot retire...
...Theatre, New York's principal burlesque theatre. Broun and Benchley and Woolcott, and all the rest of them, occupied aisle seats at the performance, and printed their formal reviews in their publications. The meaning of the incident soon became plain: the authorities recognized the effort made by the better element in burslesque to clean house. The most prominent theatrical personages paid homage to the wagers of the bitterest war that the theatre has ever known...
...element of possible surpise tonight is explained by the fact that the Springfield quintet has obviously yet to find its true strength. Every game has seen a different line-up taking the floor, and the team is equipped with a strong supply of substitute material...
...words-jealous defense of the political and economic independence of the Turkish people against all and by all means possible; rapid and decisive strides along the road to civilization and progress, no territorial ambitions beyond the ethnical frontiers of Turkey, and determination to become in European society an element of peace, a factor striving toward international fraternity...
Perhaps worse, however, would be the foreign element that such a building would introduce. The "Gold Coast", as the Boston papers call it, is the center of undergraduate life. A large public hotel, patronized by outsiders, would drop a jarring and unwanted element in to this district, that would be not only annoying but objectionable as well, for it may be safely presumed that the parictal rules could not be enforced in such a place...