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Last week, in Manhattan, a checker at the customs pier noticed a large wooden box with a loose board. Thinking it a good chance for performing his function, the checker stood next the box and reached in with one hand. Feeling the touch of some clammy thing, a wolf or a corpse perhaps, he screamed "I am bitten," and ran furiously along the pier. A less timid checker then went gingerly up to the box and pried it open. In the bottom of the box, cold and still alive, was scatterbrained John Thoening. He said he had not eaten...
There are, as a matter of fact, only two seasons in the year when the graduates of the university have an opportunity to assemble, to foregather as it were on masse--that is in the fall at the football games and in the spring at the various functions specifically constituted to provide such an opportunity. Such a function is the convention at present in full swing. At it some 1500 delegates have met to renew the associations of yesteryear, and bring back to their respective Clubs possibly something of the spirit with which they were imbued in their undergraduate...
...desired; but the reward is silence, less confusion, generally greater comfort than is possible in the main Reading Room. To many students the special libraries were unknown before the introduction of the Reading Period last January; this spring has seen an increased use of them, and at present they function as a highly valuable release for the overcrowding on the second floor...
...Committee requests that all box and table groups be formed as soon as possible. The complete list of all the occupants should be typewritten and sent to 16 Massachusetts Hall. Each Senior is allowed only two tickets, and only Seniors may attend the function...
...Another function which has always pertained to the Student Council, but which will admit of great improvement in its performance, is that of representing the undergraduate body in relations with other colleges or with the outside world. The occasions on which the undergraduate body as a whole at Harvard requires some definite representative are rare. But they are likely to arise at any time and for this reason make the existence of a representative essential. If relations should become strained between Harvard and one of its traditional rivals, if certain students were guilty of conduct unworthy of their Harvard affiliation...