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When the delicate business of rounding up Hoovercrats was begun during the 1928 Presidential campaign, a good bit of work was intrusted to Colonel Horace A. Mann, a bristly-haired Tennessee lawyer (no kin to Pioneer Educator Horace Mann) who had played poker with President Harding...
...were wandering around the halls. A piano specialty was perfectly executed, but more familiar selections might be suggested as more likely to entertain. A scene "Design for Living," haunted by the spirit of Noel Coward, was good enough to be enlarged upon. A. D. Cadman '35 contributed a brilliant bit as safari...
...vast enough to goad the Rhode Island State Legislature into the game. Sniffing that old devil communism, the vigilants empowered their speaker to appoint the time honored investigating committee. With the old Brown facility for going one better, a grieved alumnus beseeched the Federal District Attorney to do his bit as Torquemada also. But the Herald, nothing daunted, rejoined in brave tones that theirs was "the higher patriotism...
...save the old homestead, and, in fact, the whole valley. Farmyard scenes, in which Kate Smith seems as much at home as any other side-show freak would be, show her figure in a most favorable light, and even give her a chance to sing a bit to the horses and cows...
...another important general course for the Sophomore. This is "Regional Geology With Special Reference to North America." Here Assistant Professor Billings describes the geology of important regions in North America. There is no laboratory work, but reading should be done to supplement the lectures and also, as a bit of advice, the stratigraphic series stressed in lectures should be studied and memorized as they are given out, and not altogether just before examinations...