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Andover has its "smoking pro" Wellesley has its "social pro", Princeton its "automobile pro." Illinois and Stanford have their football pros; but Harvard has a stellar galaxy; varying in kind and degree, the undergraduate treads a precarious way through the maze of academic, language, and athletic probations; the student counterpart of the notorious absent-minded professor finds himself enmeshed in cut pro; medicine balls and Henienway gymnasium are the usual compulsory exercise for the lackadaisical Freshman. Even dogs in the dormitory prove a stumbling block for the unwary...
...occupants of these spacious halls are unfortunate enough in being hedged in from the world-after-dark by the present maze of gates and iron bars without having this last communication...
...unbounded resources which Harvard is reputed to enjoy are usually more or less enmeshed in a maze of contingence and stipulations so that the University is definitely restricted to a particular policy. Such bequests as the Wyeth gift a few weeks ago, with no strings attached, create a welcome opportunity for the administration to widen its program of expansion where the need of the moment demands readjustment...
...first suggestion he offers "Is Sex Necessary?" a delightful parody on the steadily accumulating mass of literature, smacking strongly of Freud and driving the debonair dandy and the dilettantish debutante into a maze of inhibitions and high-priced psychiatrists. This clever satire, minus the usual steel edge, will, the Vagabond is convinced, be an excellent defense mechanism against the strongest pent-up fixation. It is funny...
...getting in is a comparatively simple matter to getting out. The belated visitor finds himself, aghast at his plight, rattling futilely at the door of Randolph which will only open from the other side! People have been known to wander about in this maze for hours before they found the gate and succeeded in climbing over; and although many of the regular visitors who are notoriously poor at fence climbing are now considering the expedient of water proof tents for the evening, the situation is still a critical...