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...shots. It sends out a car to strike every purse-Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Oakland, Buick, LaSalle, Cadillac. It carefully picks up its dead shells and turns them into electric refrigerators, an effective barrage to cover a retreat. It invests in real estate. It trains its bullets on markets far afield, on Europe, on Australia, scattering its products all over the globe...
...last year, the Student Vagabond will concentrate the major portion of his attention upon the flowers which might else blush unseen in the "Announcement of Courses of Instruction" and waste their perfume upon a few. But being younger, it is more than likely that he will wander farther afield seeking violets rather than daisies. Nor will he keep too well in mind the strict definition of a student. More often than occasionally he will merely draw a road map to the mine where the gold may be gathered, nor stop to explain the intricacies of its composition. Only at moments...
...McNary-Haugen bill.) "I can see," added Mr. McKelvie, "the possibility, aye, the probability, of a system of cooperative marketing fostered by the government under which the farmer may retain his independence and initiative while working out his problems." The Lowden program, Mr. McKelvie observed, "shows how far afield politically minded men will go" when discussing the topic of farm relief...
...Vagabond subsists, in the eyes of the world at least, on the food of the intellect. But, all unknown though it may be to his many followers, he is often forced to wander far afield in pursuit of that rare morsel which can please so fastidious a taste as he secretly prides himself on. Boston, as the nearest, the most obvious, territory for the despairing epicure, is the usual scene of these veiled expeditions. Last night the Vagabond set out in search of those delicacies indigenous to the joy, the lightness of spring. Weeks of rain and lowering skies...
Batting averages mounted while fielding figures slumped during the past week of continual rain and loosely played ball games. The University nine carrying through its weekly schedule of three games despite inauspicious playing conditions rolled up a total of 22 runs and at the same time committed ten misplays afield. The entire total of miscues came in the last two games against William and Mary and Williams, in the first of which eleventh hour Crimson hobbles accounted to a large extent for the unexpected victory of the Southerners. In the contest at Williamstown last Saturday, Williard Howard '28, converted infielder...