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Freshmen who have not-yet decided what form of undergraduate activity, if any, they wish to go out for will have an opportunity to hear the leaders of the various college activities explain the work of their organizations. A. Horween Occ., captain of the University football team, will speak on Freshman football. The presidents of the Crimson, the Advocate, the Lampoon, the Glee Club and other activities will also address the Freshmen...
...those wishing to serve as ticket takers on Class Day should report to Mr. Mahady in the Library reading room, who will explain to them the details about the work and remuneration...
...Governor's Wife" took her husband and Cambridge by the ears Tuesday night, capturing both. There is no formula that can quite explain the extraordinary fascination of this Comedy of Manners (and a Woman) by that swift satirical genius, Jacinto Benavente. For three acts the little province of Moraleda, Spain, hums with petty intrigue, political and domestic; is agog with sycophancy and scandal; nothing is left out. Beauty and the Bull, colors and shrugs flashing lavishly excited and Latin, speech a sparkle and--everybody throws physic to the dogs. For this, let it be urged, is a DeCanterbury Pilgrimage...
...Tuesday's paper is a letter endeavoring to explain the poor showing of the Democrats in the recent Harvard-Princeton ballot. I would direct Mr. Frieder to the ballot of the Literary Digest. Here, too--I don't know the actual figures--the Republicans were far in the lead, though, or because, the Literary Digest did everything in its power to make the ballot representative. The only difference is that Harvard and Princeton gave a majority to Hoover, while the Literary Digest ballot seems to indicate that the country wants Leonard Wood. GEOFFREY BOLTON...
Devotion to lost causes has never been a characteristic of Mexican political upheavals. Its absence, perhaps, may explain why Mexico has failed so far to establish a settled government. The greatest achievements in history have more than once been the outcome of lost causes. Contemporary observers may have spoken of Thermopylae or Valley Forgo as colossal futility, and branded Leonidas or Washington as stupid and obstinate for not deserting with their forces to the enemy the moment defeat seemed evident. But in both cases obstinacy, had its final result; and in both cases it was the "losing side" that...