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...feel, with nearly two million native Puerto Rican American citizens, that you owe us an apology. As a subscriber of many years' standing I am surprised and ashamed to see my favorite periodical gratuitously insult our people and falsify the facts in so brazen a manner; to wit: there are no jungles in Puerto Rico; as to swamps, there are some few hundred acres which are yearly being eliminated by reclamation. Surely we have slums in Borinquén bella, but absolutely not in the proportion your article insinuates. As to rum, let me inform you that more than...
...vision that our big shots lack. And it makes me believe that Ayres' creed, and mine, may win through in a world where some men like Crowe exist. It makes me realize, humbly, that there is something in the heart of fighters like him to which we owe honor, before which we are puny...
Whether it is due to the war, or just a plain, old-fashioned "everything I am I owe to my mother" feeling among Cambridge undergraduates, the purveyors of flowers, sweetmeats, and telegrams in the Square are finding themselves pressed, with Mother's Day in sight, to cope with a rush of undergraduate gift and greetings buyers...
...search for better understanding among the peoples of this country and the world. Members of the Association are engaged actively in such work as the Council on Post-war Problems, settlement-house work, social work-projects of various sorts, Volunteer Civil Defense Work, etc., etc. We feel we owe a debt of gratitude to the Crimson for its service in helping to remove the misunderstanding which makes the work of the pacifists doubly difficult in war time. Hugh Barbour '42, Preston Roberts '43, Richard Henry '43, for the Harvard Pacifist Association...
...repaid through the mediation of Mr. Higgenbotham, frog & snake catcher, who happened to owe Mrs. Rawlings six dollars. One day he drove up with a trussed-up sow, asked Mrs. Rawlings if she wanted to buy a pig. "Now what I got figgered out is this. That sow there is worth six dollars. . . . I owe you six dollars. If Mr. Martin takes that sow, you've paid him and I've paid you. Now how about...