Hey, Copy Desk, Anybody Know This Harvard Place?

Girl we know phoned the other day. Said we ought to take a look at the latest New Yorker, because it had three things by Harvard men in it. Our man went round to pick it up and reports that the lady's right, and he's found three other references to Harvard in it. This makes it far and away the most solidly Crimson issue in the last eight years, he said, a little defiantly.

In case you're wondering what the items are, here's the report: A story called "A Low Conversational Tone"; a poem called "Challenge" and another called "Grace Before Blood" (Donation); mention in the Talk of the Town; a reference somewhere in the Profile; and one of those inimitable bottom-page squibs.

Best thing was the New Yorker's quote of a jaunty Bar Association yearbook that explains wisely, "His father considered that he was too young, and ... he went to Princeton for a year before entering Harvard." There's a nice little slam at Abercrombie & Fitch, too.