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...upping: wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, cattle, sheep, rice, tobacco and milk and its products. Picked as a standard to which agricultural prices were to rise to restore their parity with industry was the average pre-War level of 1909-14. Five bushels of wheat then bought a good pair of shoes which today cost nearer twelve. Secretary...
...Brooks House profits considerably from the forgetfulness of Harvard men, as unclaimed articles are given to them at the end of three months. On Friday, February 10, the date of its last consignment, the following articles were received: 47 felt hats, 2 berets, 27 notebooks, 78 textbooks, and one pair of running pants...
...Lang-True Animal Stories. Advertising Junket, this program lately completed a contest in which the maximum number of three-letter words was to be formed from "Junket Works Magic With Milk." Prizes: Scotch terrier or $50, wire-haired terrier or $35, angora kitten or $25, white canary or $10, pair of guppies (fish), 50 white china elephants. An animal roars at the beginning of the program. There is a secret society, with pin, called the H. A. H. (Happy Animal Helpers...
...equipped, and tastefully furnished library; for its Night Lunch whose congenial early morning atmosphere has proved a strong influence in levelling barriers and promoting camaraderie; for its "gold-fish" case, originally designed to hold the never-won House rowing cup, and recently graced for two days with an anonymous pair of boots; and finally, for its accessibility to the athletic fields, the University Theatre, the Boat houses, and T. S. Eliot (who will not be there next year). In addition, incalculable spiritual and intellectual gain may be expected when the Society of Fellows moves into its headquarters already established...
Once the party started to map a mirage. Another time they saw marmots pair off, stand "erect on their hind legs, grasping each other with their front paws, and dance slowly about exactly as though they were waltzing." Once a car partially sank in quicksand. Another time, in an old quicksand bed they found the four legs of a baluchitherium, largest animal that ever lived. Each leg was as big around as a fat man. A speck of white in the prevailing red of the desert sufficed to indicate a partially exposed fossil. After a little practice the men spotted...