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Primary purpose of the Crafts Shop, according to William B. Schallek '41, is to give hobbyists who want to build things a place to work. Moreover, students who want to make money in their spare time by constructing furniture will be provided with the necessary facilities. The project is modelled on similar organizations at Brown and Wisconsin...
...finagling with the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts, to the installment of his pet fountains in the Yard. Last night Harvard did its bit in recognition of these and other achievements of the Colonel. But a dinner is not sufficient. No, there is one final gesture that we must make, and it is little enough. The Crimson herewith nominates Charles R. Apted as the first full General in Harvard history...
Another midget and three more shaggy dogs named Ledyard Clark-sky wandered in to make things happier for all the boys...
From February 9th to 11th, young people from all over the country, from all walks of life, will have a unique opportunity to make their point of view heard, to express their determination to solve America's problems at home...
Without any question, all matters of culture and mythology aside, these ancedotes make wonderful reading. The stories are bulging with humor, the dialect is fast moving and expressive, and the tall tales are fantastic and original. It has been held by some reviewers that the Almanacs, with all their humor, have not the literary quality ascribed to them by Howard M. Jones in his foreword to the book. Although the "lyric exuberance" of these stories might be doubted, what does seem undeniably present in these anecdotes is an outstanding amount of imagination and originality in the language and the situations...