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...with strychnine and other things not to be mentioned to stimulate exhausted brains, she thinks to wait him over the great divide. In vain the student cries that they are not enough! Could be but do without sleep for three weeks, perhaps held make the grade Dame Science empties her pockets all to no avail, for she has not yet compounded tablets or synthetic sleep...
William McNeal Rand '09 of Ringham, Treasurer and general sales manager of the Merrimac Chemical Company and treasurer of his College class. He has served for several years on the Graduate Track Advisory Committee, part of the time as chairman. From 1917 to 1919 he was a lieutenant, senior grade, in the United States Navy...
...apparently a butler, but when he lays hold of an ukulele and sings with Mr. Wilson, or when he does a neat step-dance with Mr. Wilson, J. H. Wright '27 is as admirable as Crichton and a lot nimbler C. S. Gross '27 would be a Grade-A prima donna in any college production, and but for the presence of the boy-friend Wilson, would lead this review; instead he is generously content to complement the other's piquancy with a substantial loveliness of his own, and to pile up the Harvard score by taking second place, or four...
...refuses to be conventional, the conscientious student is despised. The idea of the "gentleman's C," which has become a popular excuse for mediocrity, is a conventionality of thought which is turning Harvard from a College into a convenient place to loaf and be great. Fathers accept the grade without complaint; sons, long before they come to college, determine to work for nothing higher. Extra-curriculum distinction, with all its empty pride, false hopes, and insignificant rewards, claims the undergraduate's attention while his books remain closed on his desk. So restless do men become in their covetousness for extra...
...cheap copper imported from South America from the domestic markets, would favor home production at high operating costs. Yet it would also hamper the prosperity of many U. S. companies, like Anaconda, which have provided themselves with cheap foreign sources of supply. On the other hand, certain high-grade U. S. copper mines, like Kennecott in Alaska, would make astonishing profits...