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THE CRIME

Harvard has always boasted its masculinity. But how many realize that yesterday 42 (forty-two) of those registered were women?

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Notes suggested by a casual survey of President Leverett's "Induction" ceremony:

The College "Buttler" and "Liberty-keeper" figure prominently in this model ceremony. It is quite possible that this nomenclature may precipitate a flurry of sociable controversy. How, for example, is one to state whether the lefthanded keeper of the keys is to be Mr. Endicott, Mr. Saeger, or, to proceed, Mr. Westcott? And who, pray, in the Widener terminological maze would forfeit his mellifluous title for the Charter and Seal?

There are, one recalls, four distinct college seals, each of which has its adherents. Which of them will be under the Library-keeper's right arm on October 9?

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"After this," we read, "Mr. Leverett made a short speech in Latin ..." Peruse this, ye tempted scoffers: Connant, James Bryant (e 10-13, A.B.)

When Freshman football started up yesterday afternoon, F. D. R. Jr was not among those present. One of those inexcusable reporters suggested that perhaps Colonel Charles R. Apted '06 had taken his afternoon off.

THE CRIB

Tut department: "... Professor Josef Schumpeter, formerly Minister of Austrian Finance, initiated 300 wrapt listeners into the theory of deposit creation and retirement."

Crimson, Confidential Guide to Ec.3.

Cellophane?

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