People Don't Have No Sense, Even Would - Be Journalists

Journalistic bitters of an unquotable professor were mixed with the sweetness of a challenge after an eminent geologist, whom the indiscreet would not identify, told the following tale:

"I was lunching with a certain president of our University," said he, "when said gentlemen asked me an embarrassingly elementary question concerning the dimensions--the diameter, to be exact--of our planet. Not even chemists can know everything, you see."

"And furthermore," glared the professor, "If any member of the CRIMSON hears this end does not forget it at once, I promise that he will flunk the course!"

(A careful comparison of the course roster and the masthead of today's paper should show no coincidences.)