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Yard Squirrels Pick Puritans To Reduce Rattle Resources

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Wise old Yard squirrels mindful of the crazy antics of prewar initiatees went right on sunning themselves yesterday noon when four Puritans, one Indian and a mannequin trooped through their precincts trumpeting sour renditions of College songs.

It was only the men from Winthrop House. Latest attempt by the Puritan Prom sponsors to help relax those undergraduates afflicted with that dread disease "the reading rattle," the impromptu bleating succeeded in waking up half a dozen Widener nappers.

Pink-cheeked and apparently free from all bourgeois academic worries, the Puritans preached a Thoreauesque "take to the woods and fields" sermon in between numbers. The squirrels agreed.

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