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...morning after the day before. The President arose earlier than usual, took a long walk on the streets of downtown Washington, returned to the White House, ate a hearty breakfast. Then in his office in an easy chair in front of the tall south windows he read newspapers and election telegrams, placidly. Messengers came in with more despatches; he picked them up mechanically, smoking slowly. The expression on his face was as emotionless as that of a man thoughtfully perusing the telephone directory. Then William Randolph Hearst came in for luncheon, suggested that the President go to California...
...Cambridge. The new plan provides for the installation of a number of tables on the second floor of the Union where four, ten, or more students may eat regularly at the same place each day. This will revive the old procedure at the University, whereby a group of friends ate together during their last three years at college...
...previous survey it was determined that 3100 men ate at the six leading cafeterias in the vicinity of the yard. Accordingly, 3240 students still remain whose feeding habits and obscure. Whether this vast army of students does its own culinary work, or fasts, or dines in Boston, or consents itself with banquets at "The Bits" cannot be definitely ascertained...
...rain-soaked persons hailed her with cheers. She had swum from Albany to the Battery (160 miles) in 57 hr. 11 min., swimming time, beating by 6 hr. 24 min. the record made in 1921 by Mrs. Corson.* She lost 4 pounds, used 72 pounds of fat, ate lumps of sugar soaked in whiskey. Having handed Mayor Walker a letter from Governor Smith, she offered to swim back if the Mayor wanted to send a letter to the Governor. Her offer was refused. She comforted her crying children, announced that next year she would swim across the channel "and back...
Coach Farrell emphasized the fact that the training table's primary purpose was not so much to standardize the food which the athletes ate as to enable the men to eat regularly and as a unit. The facilities at present are such that only the major sport teams can enjoy this advantage, and then only when they are in strict training. During the remaining part of the year the athletes have their meals, as do the majority of the undergraduates, first at one restaurant, then at another. "The teams would be in infinitely better condition at the beginning trainer...