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...picture you, I can just picture you ! Your attitude [TIME, May 30] toward the Illinois Women's Golf Club for women only gives you away completely. Do you think women fear male criticism whether they wear knickers or hoop-skirts to play golf ? Never believe it! No, but women are sick and tired of having to share golf clubs with rude men, men with fat stomachs and dirty cigars, dirtier language, boasting, conceit, overbearing attitude on the course when they drive right into women who are playing and treat us like lepers. They cannot hit decent shots...
...people in the area now being flooded cling to their homes. Most of them are Acadians?of old French and Spanish stock, few speaking English. They are (in the words of Herbert C. Hoover) "as much like French peasants as one dot is like another." Many of them wear French peasant costumes; have their shoes peg-nailed by a community shoemaker, his last held between his knees; eat hoe-cakes of home-ground corn meal, baked over live coals on three-legged iron spiders. Unable to realize that the present flood is the greatest in the history of the Mississippi...
...watching some rather portly couples pirouette. "Humph!" he exclaimed to a friend, "they look like people pushing wheelbarrows." A distaste for even the slight subterfuge of fancy dress is characteristic of both Their Majesties. And, today, as King and Queen they masquerade no more. Paradoxically they are fated to wear at every State function robes and diadems more breath-taking than any fancy dress...
Great traditional events have a way of rolling around year after year without the slightest wear on their novelty. Thus the Freshman Red Book editors suddenly announce the distribution of their product, and the world, or specifically the world of 1930, awaits with pleasurable expectancy the first journalistic fruits the literateurs among its members. Old Mother Advocate, who refused to enter a non-scouting agreement with her doubtful offspring, Lampy and the H. A. A. News will offer contracts to the Prologue Editor and the Epilogue Editor, and the CRIMSON will open its customary doors next fall...
...underclassman there appears possible some poetic justice in the announcement that from May 1 until Commencement all Seniors in good standing will wear their caps and gowns while in attendance at classes. But steady observation has led this writer at least to the deduction that (1) either there are less than forty men graduating from Harvard College this year or (2) a Senior in good standing is an anachronism. Have caps and gowns come to the position of straw hats--that they are left in the sanctity of Yard bedrooms...