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...sidewalks. He was alone running down Commonwealth Avenue. He turned into Exeter Street as lightly as though he were trotting to catch a street car, whisked across the finish where he was timed at 2 hr., 32 min., 53 sec. He was sitting down to a plate of beef stew in the Boston A. A. clubhouse when the other runners arrived...
...price of a "Georgian Special." Net profit, $4.00. A little systematic study and execution of the plan, say a student a day, would have brought in the hard-driving instructor a tidy revenue of almost $2.50 a week, depending on how long the wife could make the cold roast beef last...
...have requested that his captors, whoever they may be, feed him on nothing but red meat. And it seems to us that the fine Italian hand of an Eli Machiavelli becomes visible. We never yet heard of a Yale bulldog fed for any appreciable length of time on raw beef that needed any sympathy. The Yales may have been able with impunity to kidnap a poor defenceless stuffed Ibis, but we shall be surprised if in a short time Handsome Dan, II doesn't show up with the seat of some Harvard pants in his teeth. --New York Herald Tribune...
...this diatribe is that an educational institution cerebrates on its belly, and good scholarship must wait upon a balanced menu. Were the authorities to focus upon the problem under their noses, the path would straightway be cleared for the furtherance of the humanities. And incidentally pruning the bully beef and mutton chop outlay would not only finance the purchase of greens but might net Lehman Hall a tidy little surplus as well. Rhodes P. Frothingham...
...Stillwater, Minn, from his home in Chamberlain, S. Dak., went Charles M. Lockwood, 91, last man of the Last Man's Club (Civil War reunionists), to meet with the Bully Beef Club. World War edition of the Last Man's Club. Last Man Lockwood opened a bottle of rare old Burgundy four years ago, but the Bully Beef club had a battle-scarred can of bully beef to be opened by the last two survivors of its 286 members. Said Last Man Lockwood: "We ate many cans of bully beef during the Civil War but we chose...