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...Hooey is proceeding from Manila to Cambridge via Honolulu, the Aleutian Islands, Nome, Seattle, and Chicago, in a desperate effort to reach Harvard before the CRIMSON eleven goes on the field against Bates next week...
...consolation, though it, too, is depressing is that Yankee hypocrisy would be certain to allow us our books via the medium of a bootlegger. In that part of the world visible to the average Harvard student, Prohibition did little more than take drinking from the corner saloon and put it in the home, the college dormitories, and exclusive little clubs now known as speakeasies. True, it did slightly cheapen the quality and slightly increase the cost of liquor. Our libraries may someday be filled by methods not unlike the way we now fill our cellars...
Sports. Football Coach Fielding H. Yost tells how deaf-mutes use sign-signals where others shout. In the "Jere to Libe" volume Helen Wills relates how lawn tennis was introduced to the U. S.?via Bermuda, in 1874. "There was some difficulty in getting the [first tennis] outfit through the custom house, as no one knew what...
Five-Power Disarmament. Referring to progress made in his naval disarmament pourparlers with President Hoover via Ambassador Dawes the Prime Minister raised an international furore by implying that all but three of 20 points of difference between Britain and the U. S. on this question had been ironed out. What were the three points? Correspondents tried so hard to guess that they well nigh ignored a much more significant passage in which Mr. MacDonald said, "What we [Britain and the U.S.]want to get is an agreement which, having been made, can be a preliminary to the calling...
...justice to your article, otherwise quite correct, I should add that 75% of my orders are routed via steamer, even from points several hundred miles inland from Atlantic seaboard cities, for economical reasons...