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...have been asked recently what kind of comments my essays and predictions have evoked from the ever-expectant public. From the great pile of letters I receive each Monday, I select the one below as typical. It was written by one of the many fair fanettes among my readers...
...lack of organization in the beginning of play against Yale allowed the Elis to pile up five goals in the first chukker, and though the excellent defense work of Captain R. A. Pinkerton '27 kept further tallies down to a considerable degree, the Crimson players were unable to overcome the Bulldog's heavy lead, losing...
That the sword of Damocles, in the shape of a pile of bricks weighing nearly a ton, hung for years over the heads of two University officials was discovered when Massachusetts Hall was recently renovated...
...office formerly occupied by W. S. Burke, inspector of Grounds and Buildings, and C. R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers, was at the eastern end of Massachusetts Hall. The chimney at that end of the building had decayed and a great pile of bricks, weighing at least 800 pounds was lying on the ceiling directly above the unsuspecting Messrs. Burke and Apted. How long this deadly and unknown peril had thus threatened the lives of the occupants of the office below is not known...
...wallpaper of their bedrooms. "What," they thought sleepily, "was going to happen today?". With a start they remembered that it was the day for Mayor Nelson's paper, hurried into their clothes and downstairs to where the Sunday paper waited with its many crisp, exciting layers, like a pile of griddle cakes, beside their coffee cups. With what a sinking of the heart they crackled through those layers. Why, except for an extra page about religion, and the fact that there was no "immorality" on the front page (all crime news was segregated in an inside section) the Pioneer...