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Dissatisfied with the facilities offered at Brooks House, where 225 students, ate luncheon daily in crowded quarters, the commuters planned to establish a club similar to the Five-Fifteen Club at M. I. T. and to obtain central headquarters for dancing and other social functions. A complaint was furthermore lodged against the conduct of Brooks House athletics, which the commuters charged was kept in the hands of a few upperclassmen and confined largely to students living in Claverly Hall. The Club proposed to limit its membership to actual commuters and to organize its own teams for competition in intramural athletics...
...Majesty (1 :59 1/4), for the past ten years. His silks are green & white. He wears glasses, smokes cigars, talks in monosyllables. After last week's race, Greyhound was led back to his stall, unharnessed, and fed by his stable boy a cigaret which he ate with relish. Undefeated in five trots this year, the only thing left for Greyhound to do to prove himself the equal of Peter Manning is to break the latter's world record of a mile in 1:56 1/4. Said Driver Palin: "Mr. Baker and I fully intend to send him after...
...touring in Canada, gave him special commendation for a scientific exhibit in which he displayed an early photograph of one of the Dionne girls cradled in a nurse's hand, another recent photograph of the five girls, pictures of their home and hospital, charts of the foods they ate...
...toward Socialism. Membership was usually composed of unemployed or partly employed industrial workers not only in big centres like Chicago and Cleveland but in smaller manufacturing cities like Moline, Ill. and Gary, Ind. Not infrequently the shirt-sleeved amateurs went to the theatre after work, rehearsed and played there, ate there and slept on cots pitched on the stage. Through the League's play service, such "agitprop" pieces as Comrade, Mr. Morgan's Nightmare, Who's Who in the Berlin Zoo were supplied to workers' theatres up & down the land. Acceptable and exciting as they...
...questions. The senior member of the examining committee looked on sympathetically as the sharp, efficient young questioner astutely revealed alarming gaps in the victim's knowledge. The poor candidate simply could not remember whether or not such and such a sixteenth-century writer had a full beard, what he ate for breakfast on a certain morning, whether or not his wife washed his underwear, or, for that matter, whether or not he were underwear...