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Today we circle Scollay Square, for the Old Howard no less than the New Lecture Hall is an integral part of Harvard life. A poll of a Senior Album several years age reported that the average scholar in the Class of 1940 had attended three Boston burlesque performances (including one midnight show.) The questionnaire also found some 20-odd men who had been present for more than a dozen exposures. One member of the Class was employed there as an usher for six months during his final term at Harvard. And a few years ago the Old Howard even appeared...
...Harvard, Lucius chartered a plane from which he attempted to festoon the late J. P. Morgan's yacht, Corsair, with toilet paper, initiated a poll to decide whether Harvard should trade President Lowell and three full professors for a good running backfield (the motion was lost, 1,234-to-1,227), borrowed and surreptitiously published manuscript poems by Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. Shortly thereafter, Lucius left Harvard and joined the staff of the New York Herald Tribune...
...Braced itself for another session of filibustering by Mississippi's bantam, bombastic Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, as both House and Senate Judiciary Committees approved another anti-poll-tax bill. "The Man" assured the Senate that there would be "free and unlimited coinage of words...
...Bless 'em all. Bless 'em all, the long and the short and the tall." That's about the way the Naval Officer Procurement thinks of its WAVES even though they did just take a poll of 100 New England female officers to find out what they were getting...
Last week his case put an abrupt end to the latest crusade of the Durban police, who are forever rounding up poll-tax evaders and curfew violators. Thundered the Hon. A. A. R. Hathorn, judge-president of the Natal Supreme Court: "The police seem to expect a married man to wave his marriage certificate every time he wishes to exercise his marital rights...