Fall has definitely arrived in New England. Gospadin Brenner, one of our language miracle makers, says you can tell because people are beginning to say "Hello" when they meet one another instead of "Nice day, isn't?"

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Room inspections have hit a new low. Every room in McKinlock Hall was below the company average for the week.

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Look over that paragraph, or did you get it the first time?

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The recent complaints by Harvard undergraduates about the food situation don't faze the old timers in the army units. We remember well the days when they not only served us horse meat but neglected to take the saddle off the horse before cooking it.

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Well, at least they removed the jockey.

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The mess sergeant has his own way of announcing filet de fily for chow. Horse blankets instead of table cloths.

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I have a public. Quote: "Dear Sarge, I've been following your stuff regularly. You're getting better with every column. Your spelling's improving."

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No kidding department: Yale is so sore at Harvard's cancellation of the traditional clash that the word "Harvard" has been deleted from all Yale songs this year, and for the 1943 season it's "Good Night Poor Princeton" and so on down the line.