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...there are rumors that a more penetrating criticism, from the same source, is about to be let loose. The game of setting up little tin gods and clay-footed idols to knock over is not particularly dangerous, and it has a certain virtue in putting the small players in trim for larger struggles. To undergraduate onlookers,' the present batters at Yale and Dartmouth keep their proper proportions. But outsiders are more gullible; finding that the critics take themselves seriously, they are quick to swallow the scandal. And how seriously the critics do take themselves...
...bootlegger launches to come and carry its liquor to New York or Jersey. The crews of the rum ships do not trust the bootleggers; they are armed with .45 caliber automatics. The reason for this state of continual naval preparedness was divulged by the skipper of the Tuscarora, as trim a whiskey-running schooner as ever dumped her weekly 2,000 cases in a bootleg lighter. In a press interview the skipper pointed out that bootleggers, angry at the high prices charged for Scotch and rye, sometimes turn pirate, board a small ship and steal the alcoholic cargo. A raid...
...trim our broad sail as before...
...sites in Cambridge and the immediate vicinity have been considered for the projected group of buildings, suggested plans for which have been tentatively drawn up by Harrold F. Kellogg '06, a Boston architect. These plans call for several Colonial buildings, with simple red brick walls and stone or wood trim, the style depending for effect more on its proportion than on its ornamentation...
...order on the University hockey squad this week. The extremely short practice periods allowed because of the popularity of the Arena with skaters from several colleges, and the difficulties of shaping a team in less than one week to meet a seven which has been at top trim for more than a month call for strenuous effort. Alfred Winsor '05 was on the ice again last night, giving his aid to Coach William H. Claflin '15, and the twenty-five minutes of smashing scrimmage was featured by the fastest work yet shown by the Crimson squad...