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Cukoschay, once a sailor in the U. S. Navy, has been a rising heavyweight contender ever since he put an end to the so-called "Senegambian menace" that sport writers attached to Harry Wills. He now stands in line in Promoter Rickard's notebook to meet William Harrison Dempsey in the summer. If he conquers Dempsey or if Dempsey does not wish to be met, Cukoschay will be eligible to exchange buffets with Champion Tunney in the autumn...
...Lowes of Harvard aims "to tell the story, so far as I have charted its course, of two of the most remarkable poems in English, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan.'" His chief guide in this hazardous and admirable journey is a notebook of 90 chaotic pages in which Coleridge was accustomed to scrawl the names of books which he had read or intended to read, ideas which he considered shaping into verse, recipes for ginger-wine and other paraphernalia of a profound and poetic intellect...
...given a few minutes in religion courses, and allowed a portion of the chapel time. He then demanded that a snap-vote be taken. Sixty two voted in favor of strict enforcement, 39 for modification, 20 for repeal. He entered Upsala in the prohibition column of his notebook and went on to a nearby college...
...after all, the Phillips. Brooks House Association hasn't cause for too great fear. Even the most determined of its strangers remember the name in the haze of Student Council Budgets or Lecture Posters, and unanswered Social Service invitations as connected in some way with that little black notebook that we used when we had to sing Fair Harvard for the first time. That was a mighty handy little book, and it didn't cost anything either. We remember it had a map of Cambridge in it which proved a big help when we tried to find out where Quincy...
...strange thing, this impulse to trust to someone else's knowledge of a subject rather than to one's own. The room-mate, who took the course two years ago, is to be trusted rather than one's own notebook, the professional tutors, who have probably never taken the course at all are to be trusted most of all. The most objectionable thing about the tutoring schools is that they destroy confidence in a man's ability to prepare for an examination by himself; it is doubtful, as some authorities may think, that they enable even their most ardent devotees...