Word: side-lights
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...only a few pages in the Harvard Business School newspaper, HarBus. The Business School had a student calendar--similar to HSA's Something Happening, now challenging BAD's distribution at Harvard--but the calendar folded and HarBus -- business manager: Lewis--picked up the entertainment news. "An interesting side-light on all this," Lewis said, " is that HSA claimed then that it circulated at the Business School, when of course it didn't at all. They'll stoop to anything to make money...
...beyond Neptune by astronomers at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, according to an announcement made yesterday by the Harvard College Observatory. It was in search of this planet that Percival Lowell '76, an older brother of President Lowell, spent the last years of his life. As an interesting side-light, it was learned yesterday that the date of the discovery would have been his seventy-fifth birthday...
...those who are intent upon wandering into out-of-the-way places, Daniel Streeter's latest literary and nomadic side-light will afford amusement enough to warrant at least a hasty reading. It must be admitted at the outset, nevertheless, that the word, "side-light" has not been misapplied. Then we wonder what a circus would be with out its side-show; enough for some, no doubt, but there would be many more who would clamor for the sight of the freaks, hidden under the smaller tent...
...Another side-light on the number of offspring of University alumni is afforded by Professor J. C. Phillips, nationally known genetic expert, who says, "It is worthy of note that the number of children born to Yale graduates is almost constantly higher than that for Harvard, while the number of childless marriages is slightly less...
...Another side-light on Harvard students ought not to be overlooked. It is even more contradictory to the accepted notions as to present-day undergraduates. The boys who got up this professedly funny paper, know their Bible. They may not know it all by heart, but they can make incidental use of allusions, which come in too aptly to have been derived from any dictionary of quotations or other mere work of literary reference...