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...standing motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of hay, liniment and leather. Through these pleasant smells there drifted presently the acrid odor of smoke. A tall chestnut plater flicked his ears and stumbled to his feet, making a sudden muffled thunder in the darkness...
...similarity of the figures on the use of the Reading Room with those of 1929 should be definite proof of one thing. The use of the library during the two weeks preceding Midyear Examinations is practically the same as that of last year. There has been no such sudden decrease as that evidenced in the large discrepancy of the statistics of last year with those compiled during the installation of the new plan...
...complaining only about the heartless manner of it. But here was a brusque note from President Lowell announcing that Harvard University would not raise the wages of the cleaning women, from thirty-five cents an hour (which Mr. Duvall knew Mrs. Trafton was receiving at the time of her sudden discharge) to thirty-seven cents to conform to the findings of a State board. Mr. Duvall, when he showed me the letter, asked if I did not agree that the circumstances warranted making it public. Fully appreciative of the ethical problem involved in disclosing a private letter...
...manner in which the Bible and Shakespeare examinations have been conducted this year has been, from a student point of view, very faulty. Seniors were greeted a few days after their return last September with the sudden announcement that these examinations would be held at a time about a week earlier than was the case last year. The Juniors in History and Literature, as has been stated before in this column, will be obliged to take their Bible-Shakespeare examinations only ten days after the end of the mid-year period, at a time impractical both for its closeness...
Should news of the passing of the Prom still the revival instinct in members of the Junior Class one can yet conceive of its re-birth. But unless there is a sudden hue and cry calling the Promback to life, time probably would be better spent speculating as to the future of college dances under the House Plan social scheme, than in pondering the fate of an occasion that has had its day of glory...