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Barry Wood, football star of the class of 1932, is also a Phi Beta Kappa. His wife is a Phi Beta Kappa. But the rumor is spreading that since Saturday's great triumph of Football, his wife is having the two Phi Beta Kappa keys made into earrings.

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Have you ever seen a bar walking? Well, a walking bar made his debut in Soldiers Field Saturday. Strung along his belt, like a glorified street-car conductor, was a row of leather containers. One held a little shaker, several had little bottles, and others had little glasses. He had many more friends at the end of the game than he had at the beginning.

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Also in the stadium was a Harvard enthusiast whose hearty cheers always seemed to end rather unorthodoxly in a jumble of gurgles, splutters, and smothered rattles. After Harvard's second touchdown his cheer rose like unto the sereech of a siren. When his voice fell it was too late, for his false teeth had already fallen, presumably into the mess of feathers, flora, and surrealist architecture which some women's hat-maker is probably proud of. At least that was where he looked for it, much to the consternation of the woman thereunder.

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Harvard hosts were tolerant of their temporary weekend guests on the whole, considering the resulting increase in telephone and laundry bills. But one exception was the host who came in at five in the morning. "I found a guy sprawled on the floor and thought he was a friend of mine, so I balanced a glass of water on his shoulder and then kicked him. When he looked up I found I'd never seen him before."

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The comments of a number of visitors this weekend brought up the question of whether the enlightening sign on Boylston street across from Eliot House should be taken as praise or an insult to Harvard.

It says "Welcome to Cambridge, the third Industrial City in New England. Famed for its houses, buildings, streets, industries, famous men, schools, and colleges," or something like that. Is Harvard taken for granted as eclipsing all these other wonders in the average mind, or does Harvard occupy such an interior position as that.

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