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...honor. Compromised how? Surely you remember: by being "found in a man's rooms." Not room; rooms; it sounded more sinister. Maybe she just wanted an egg and which; maybe she really was interested in etchings maybe she was boring her host to death, and he, to get rid of her, asked her to do this dreadful thing he knew no lady would dream of doing, and she fooled him. After she had been found there, as of course she was--trust the playwright for that!--by her husband, father, fiance, brother, or by any member of the cast except...
...Bingham observes, the fault lies with college presidents who have sat by, content to watch their institutions catapult to fame behind the artillery of big time football brigades. President Conant has declared his contempt for "professional teams maneuvering behind collegiate banners", and has proposed an endowment policy to rid Harvard's sports of their dependence on gate receipts. But unfortunately an endowment fund large enough to handle the A.A.A. annual $400,000 budget seems pitifully remote. Mean-while Harvard is at the mercy of other colleges whose standards may vary with the wind...
...York Stock Exchange; Major General John F. O'Ryan; Under Secretary of the Interior Charles West; Mayor LaGuardia and Bishop Francis J. McConnell of New York City. Among them too was Alpha R. Whiton, Democratic chairman of Putnam County who by personal request is making an attempt to rid the Squire of Hyde Park of an old grievance-the indignity of being a constituent of an arch-Republican, Representative Hamilton Fish...
...guns is tormented by the boys until he loses his job, to the detriment of his love life. Bright Honor points out that education at Newtown is smothered under the pressure of military mumbo-jumbo, a fact of no importance to parents who send their boys there to get rid of them, or because they will not eat their spinach...
...first place he can get rid of whimsical Christopher Morley's column "The Bowling Green," which no doubt attracts as many readers as all the other features of the Saturday Review (with the exception of the famed Personals) put together. Morley's column has to be read to be believed, and so long as it stays in it will continue to frighten away any serious and intelligent audience. In the second place he can get competent reviewers (not criticasters like the Benet boys and Bill Phelps and former editor H. S. Canby) to say what they think about books. There...