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...neglected Leverett House Senior looked in his mailbox a week ago and found the first bit of mail he had gotten in eleven days. It was an announcement of reduced airplane rates to Chicago and other of the larger cities; but he was going to spend the vacation in Manchester, New Hampshire. Justifiably annoyed, he thought, "I'm gonna write myself a letter," and did. He mailed it from Wayland...
...when you've gotten to home plate, you'll find thousands of others who have gotten just as far. If you sell 3,000 copies of your first book, you're doing well. My first manuscript was turned down by eight publishers, quite justly too, and didn't sell half that amount. There is no set formula for success...
...students whose tickets are found to have gotten into the hands of speculators will be blacklisted," Bingham said...
...Brown game has been the only occasion when the big tom-tom has actually been spared this fall. When it was gotten down from summer storage just before the game, the drummers discovered that the calfskin had torn loose from one side and unfortunately could not be fixed in time for the game. Necessarily, it had to be played rather softly that day, which by mischance happened to be the very one when a New Yorker spy (maybe two) was secreted in the stands. Such is life...
...fiddlestick, I didn't get in till five this morning and missed class again," a Junior on pro exclaimed entering the Harvard Square Garage on his way to Northampton, "but I mailed him a note saying that I was sick and had gotten lecture notes from Mike...