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...Kitty" decided to move to the larger auditorium principally because the avid Shaksperians prevented his entrance to the originally scheduled room. When word spread that the locale had been shifted to Professor Merriman's lair, ladies from Radcliffe, boys and girls from Rindge Tech, and just plain Harvardmen threw dignity to the winds and raced helter-skelter for vantage spots from which to hear that "King Claudius, (Hamlet's uncle), of all geat characters in Shakspere, is the one who has suffered most at the hands of actors and stage managers...
...murder the case suddenly broke when a pair of glasses found at the scene of the crime were identified as Leopold's, and Loeb and Leopold blandly confessed that they had killed Bobby Franks "for a thrill." In one of his greatest forensic efforts, Lawyer Clarence Darrow threw his clients on the mercy of the court, explained that they were psychologically corrupt, quoted from Omar Khayyam, got them off with 99-year sentences. This autumn Leopold will have completed twelve years of his term. Loeb completed his last week...
...part of the great political drama presented every Presidential election year, a half-dozen Hamlets last week rushed to the national footlights, threw out their chests, opened their mouths in mighty soliloquies. Who was to be or not to be President after Jan. 20, 1937 was the question...
...intended entitling the poem "After." This copy was retrieved from Kipling's wastebasket by the late Sara Norton, of Cambridge, daughter of Charles Eliot Norton '46, and friend of the Kiplings. Miss Norton was visiting the Kiplings in 1897 at the time Kipling was writing "Recessional" and when he threw a draft of the poem into the wastebasket, she recovered the page, and the author allowed her to keep...
Investigation threw the officials of the boat into an uproar. There were veiled threats regarding the throwing of college boys into the brig and taking them back to New York. Passengers snickered. Finally, however, the new flag was retrieved and revealed to one and all for what it was, the most important half of a pair of striped and vividly coloured pajamas that have adorned the closet and person of a Dunster Senior for lo these many months...