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...Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) first systematized the laws of whist, and it became a byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...report of the Aircraft Board gives to the public a clearer un- derstanding of all the problems involved than any statement hereto- fore issued...
Undergraduates who study, play bridge, and, theoretically, sleep in the Bow Street dormitories will feel a throb of sympathy at the news that the population of Park Avenue in New York is rising in revolt against a chime of bells recently installed in un uptown church. Just when the nurse gets the baby to sleep, five o'clock strikes with much metallic prelude; and by the time the miracle is once more accomplished, the chime strikes the quarter with such gusto that the child's temper is permanently ruined. There is a great deal of romance about bells...
Once more Brattle Hall these last few nights has been seething like all Bedlam let loose during the rehearsals for another fantastic and most un-Canta-brigian drama. Once more out of the chaos of undergraduate acting the pa- tience of Mr. Edward Massey '15, is succeeding in bringing forth some sort of dramatic cosmos in our abandoned New England drama-farm. Once more the Harvard Dramatic Club is about to offer to the University an opportunity for a little education in modern drama and thus help to fill that aching void--the dramatic desire under the academic elms...
...that this type of cut is un-intelligible to many undergraduates. Certainly, it is inexcusable to a lecturer in a slighted course and to the official machinery in the college office...