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...lusty at first, perked up as the game went to an exciting finish. He was the first man to rise in the lucky seventh inning. When the score was tied in the ninth, the President autographed a ball brought him by the Washington mascot, a blooming little boy. When the home team lost, the President went off for a week-end on the Mayflower...
...dressing room after the matinee, sipping a cup of tea, Mr. Maude rambled on. "I sent my boy to Oxford to prepare for a career at the bar. I never should have wanted him to go on the stage, but as I say, it isn't nearly half so bad if you have a separate income to ride you over the bumps...
Dear America! What a naughty boy you are growing to be! Prosperity has spoiled you; you have grown too fat to retain your tender sensibilities. You are too active, and have got out of control. ... You don't mean to be bad, after all, and you were born a good child. I love you all the same. But nevertheless you are too arrogant. . . . You are giving military drill to your girls. Shame! You are making military preparations day and night. Against whom? Whom are you afraid of? Of Japan...
...knowledge that they pack into their brains is, in every reasonable cultural sense, useless; it is the sort of knowledge that belongs, not to a professional man, but to a police captain, a railway mail clerk, or a board boy in a brokerage house. It is a mass of trivialities and puerilities; to recite it would be to make even a barber or a bartender beg for mercy. . . . Honor does not go with stupidity...
...Saltonstall '28, former Milton Academy and Exeter boy, was promoted at the end of last week from the dormitory squad to the first Freshman squad as a result of his excellent showing in a dormitory scrimmage...