To prevent sons and daughters is hardly enough;

Can you get either one when you want it?

If you can, then, gosh dang 'er,

God bless Mrs. Sanger!

John Harvard Says:

There was a time--back in the good old days when tradition was still in swaddling clothes--when the Yard was as full of characters as a Dickens novel. As early as the seventeenth century one Samuel Gibson had won the general esteem by sponsoring certain midnight parties at his dwelling to which students brought sundry turkeys, geese and other fowls from the neighbors' hen houses to be cooked. More than once the Overseers "sollemnly cautioned" the convivial host "of entertaining any of the students in his house, frequenting the Colledges, or drawing them otherwise into his company." All to no avail. The merry Samuel remained the center of extracurriculum activities until his death.

Another striking figure was that of an Ethiopian "scout", Dr. Charles, who held forth in the eighteen-twenties. He was the precursor of two modern institutions, the Phillips Brooks Old Clothes Drive and Max Keezer. Through his diligence as a collector and his extraordinary thrift, he became the source of supply for students and even professors in need of "small loans". It is said "he was always ready to place his funds at the disposal of the College."

The greatest of them all was John the Orangeman. For half a century he was the most popular man in Cambridge. His title to immortality is a now classic phrase which he coined in an inspired moment and repeated ever afterward on suitable occasions: "Ter bell wid Yale!" This won for him the mascotship of all Harvard teams, and in that official capacity he traveled with them wherever the fair name of Harvard was to be upheld on the field of combat.

A practical patriot, Maud,

Was wife to ten soldiers abroad.

Instead of a pension

They gave her detention

For using the males to defraud.

CRIMSON headline announcing the lecture-recital of Mile. Nadia Boulanger: "To Sing and Talk in Paine". Help! Help!

To the Editor of The Crime: