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...Howland: "Scant courtesy...
...proposed innovation has been brought up because of the scant attendance at daily chapel. From statistics obtained from J. D. Jameson '24, chairman of the Chapel committee, a CRIMSON reporter has averaged the weekly attendance of the year and found it to be under 65. During the month of November, 1923, the average attendance was 68. The average in December was raised to over 75 due to the presence of the Rev. H. E. Fosdick, who conducted chapel during the second week. The attendance on the Sunday he preached jumped to 550, whereas on the previous Sunday...
...rest there are several rather surprising inclusions and omissions. That Giovanni Papini's "Life of Christ" should have attained such heights of popularity in one scant year of existence is as revealing in one way as la the mention of "The Virginian," which is twenty-two years old, to the exclusion of any of Booth Tarkington's work; for example, 'The Conquest of Canaan," or "The Gentleman From Indiana." Dyed in the wool conservatives, however, may be cheered by the fact that neither "Jurgen" nor "Women in Love" were so much as mentioned...
...engagement. The 38 to 16 Harvard triumph surprised the team's most sanguine supporters fully as much as it did the Green invaders, who were completely outplayed from the first whistle to the last. St. Francis College two days later gave the Crimson a real scare, losing by a scant point in a hard-fought fray...
...struggle put up tonight by Captain Gordon and his men aroused the handful of Crimson supporters to a high pitch of enthusiasm and evoked the praise of the most dyed-in-the-wool Eli sympathizers. It was distinctly a defeat with honor; but a defeat, even with honor, is scant comfort to the players who had victory so nearly within their grasp...