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Through the column "The Graduates' Window," which was conducted last year by Bernard DeVote '20, E. A. Weeks. Jr. '22, presents the position of Collegiate football as revealed by the results of the last season and depression conditions...
...surpassingly stupid manner. This was only too painfully obvious to those who saw the screen version of "An American Tragedy" or who watched the final scene in the Hollywood conception of "A Farewell to Arms," where Lieutenant Henry grasps Katherine's corpse in his arms, looks out of the window at an Armistice demonstration, and loudly exclaims: "Peace...
...priest mumbles a marriage ceremony adds nothing to the story but it is an effective incident in itself. The only stupid touch in the picture comes in the final moment after the tragedy of Catherine's death - when Lieutenant Henry picks up her corpse, looks out of the window at an armistice celebration and loudly remarks: "Peace!" After this comes an unreasonable photograph of flying pigeons...
...play the game of trendel with a spinning top, eat lathes (pancakes) and potato kugel, receive Chanukah gelt (gifts). One may not work by the light 'of Chanukah candles (small yellow ones) or oil lamps, which are lit nightly from the special shammus candle and placed on the window sill...
Unlike George Herbert Palmer who, locked in Appleton Chapel, attracted the attention of a yard cop from a high up circular window, the Vagabond settled down to enjoy himself. The arrangement of some of the books took his fancy. The Harvard University Publications, he found, were placed, appropriately enough, next to books on Games and Sports; while War Songs next to Individual and Individualistic Composers made him suspect that the world of music was not without its skirmishes. He discovered Manchuria defended only by Thibet, between China and Japan...