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George Van Santvoord, whimsical one time instructor and assistant professor of English at Yale, now headmaster of Hotchkiss School, last week wrote an article for the Yale News in which he purported to explain the plan of a Yale student's father for solving the week-end exodus problem current at New Haven. Wrote Mr. Van Santvoord : "For this purpose he proposes to lease the Hotel Biltmore [in Manhattan]. Students enrolling in Biltmore College will pay an annual fee of $5,000. One week-end absence will be allowed each" term for attendance at the Yale-Harvard game. . . . Each...
...Rochester, N. Y. last week Senor Jose W. Kelly, onetime Mexican labor attache, was knocked down by an automobile, rushed to a hospital suffering from loss of his ability to speak English. In Spanish puzzled Senor Kelly explained that until run over he could speak English well. In 1908 he was graduated from Cornell University where he spoke English in all his classes. Rochester doctors could not explain...
...crowded restaurant Baudelaire rose, told the company this woman had ruined his life, then tried to kill himself with a knife. Economical Poet Alexander Pope kept copies of his love letters. Baudelaire did Pope one better: sent exact duplicates to two women at once. Pierre Loving tries to explain his hero's complex character thus: "Artifice and stoicism, these were the keys to the unassailable life of the Chesterfieldian martyr and saint...
...policy, although defensible, is not understandable. For this reason Harvard men do not like Yale's action. Abruptly reversing, without explanation, a mutually pleasant tradition, the Yale athletic authorities have made a gesture unquestionably to be wondered at. Between friends reasons must be frankly stated. Yale is obligated to explain this action...
...Freshman meeting in Smith Halls common room at 7 o'clock this evening, Captain Hallowell, Coaches Whiteside and Haines, will outline the plans for the spring season and explain to the first-year men the essential differences between school and college rowing...