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Another restaurant has entered the ranks in Harvard Square, and the competition in pleasing the students' palates flares up eagerly once more. Statistics on eating habits are of little value, for the number of restaurants and their respective popularity shift with the dazzling speed of the population of a boom town in a gold-mining district--a simile not without exact application to the situation here. In spite of the excessive number of eating-places in the Square, there appears to be business enough to keep everything from hot-dog booths to semi-night clubs in existence...
...immense influence into the political scale. They carpingly pointed out that, although the new presidential epistle stresses the need of postponing a general election until the budget and other, bills can be rushed through, the "real" concern of President Hindenburg may lie ill delaying as long as possible that shift to the political left which is generally prognosticated as the result of the coming election...
Stunt fliers, automobile racers, pearl divers, bull fighters risk wicked wounds in the exercise of their bodies for gold. Not so fisticuffers, footballers, baseball players, golf champions who make most of the money. This winter, however, has seen a shift in money values which brings one sport at least nearer a financial level with its vicious risks. Professional hockey players are being bartered for many thousands, receiving presumably increasingly fat dividends for their efforts. One rumor floats about that the Montreal Canadians hold Howie Morenz, greatest of all hockey players...
...Harvard play, but to see football played, and with this change in purpose would come all the other disadvantages of professional athletics; that to pay for the Stadium would make this general invitation to the public necessary at all but the Yale game; that this marks a definite shift from "athletics-for-all" to "a chance to see athletics-for-all"--that Harvard needs a golf course and other equipment for active use more than a Stadium which would be filled at most twice a year; that the present Stadium, architecturally, is unrivalled, and that the proposed enlargement would make...
...reference to the productions, Rodemich remarked that even when the orchestra was performing, they were "working up" the show. "Sometimes" we think a band number will be a knockout, it proves not to be: we shift things around, and cut parts out, until we finally manage to please the public. What all audiences want is pep: they like the soatimental stuff, but snappy rhythm is always more successful," he concluded...