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Less than sixty people turned out to hear the music of six Harvard composers at Paine Hall Monday night. This scant response was not, on the whole, warranted...
...longest time before releasing the shot." Boiled down to its essentials, the O'Brien put begins with the putter at the rear of the ring, crouching low over his right leg, his back turned to the shot's line of flight. Since the seven-foot circle allows scant running room, the added speed generated by the 180° spin before the shot is released makes a tremendous difference...
When the meat runs out two days later and the coward has run away with the only hunting gun, the petty fights begin. An engaged girl (Phillis Kirk) and Anita Ekberg, clad in scant blouses, tussle over the co-pilot in a nearby brook for the picture's most interesting scene...
Ultimately, the University has no alternative but to support the fraternity system, if only because of the housing it provides for undergraduate men. While trying to build new dormitories, it has scant hope for much advance in this line...
...next famous grave, not far off, was that of Longfellow, where, we luckily remembered, the aged Emerson, a scant month before his own end, attended the burial on the arm of Charles Eliot Norton, also a future resident. From Indian Ridge, where Longfellow now slept as tranquilly as he did in his waking hours, we stumbled along Central Ave., to Cypress Ave., and then, trusting we were unobserved, skipped cross-country 'twixt stone and slab to the unforgettable Spruce...