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HARVARD PROFESSOR FOILED ANCIENT ASKERS OF ANOTHER

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Now that the "Ask Me Another" craze is sweeping the country, books of Questionaires are coming out almost daily, the newspapers are running questions, and the fad has even invaded the CRIMSON, it is of interest to know that the idea is by no means new.

A few years ago the Atlantic Monthly asked the question, "How can a man get off a frictionless plane?" It was a Harvard professor who supplied the only satisfactory answer when he replied: "The only way to get off to the north is to spit to the south."

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