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Girls of Emory University at Atlanta, Ga., cringed. "... Simple hell cats with muddy minds." The Methodist revivalist was roaring at them. Outside it was full spring. Gay flowers beckoned to be plucked for coat lapels; breezes would blow at hair loosed in vernal gayety. But the girls, and boys, of Emory, sat awed as Dr. Clovis Chapel of Memphis continued to castigate: "The average girl of 17 would not greatly object to appearing nude if she had any excuse to do so. ... Modesty has already burst; it is dead. The average girl of today is like the moth fluttering around...
...continued his story. "After working around the Yard for a few years, I was given the job of lighting the Yard lights. I used to carry a bottle of bensine and a torch around with me every night, and fill and light each lamp separately. Sometimes the wind would blow them out as fast as I could light them, and then I'd have o start all over again...
...Then blow, ye critics, blow; A-sailing we will go; The merest hint of a nice blue-print Will drive the foe away...
Once in a little southern town she made rough workmen passing by the railroad yard hold their breath while she spoke to them from atop a pile of tar-smeared ties. An enraptured foreman forgot to blow his whistle...
...Shaw '28, walking home in company with Arthur Clement on Holyoke Street, was overtaken by a crowded patrol wagon on the way to the station. Although neither Shaw nor Clement offered any resistance, they were both thrown into the wagon, Shaw after receiving a blow on, the head that necessitated several stitches, Benjamin Dorman '29, half a block down the street received the same treatment, and did not recover complete consciousness for several hours...