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...clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field, it will be up against one of the most erratic teams that it will probably meet this year. Both teams, however, are very evenly matched and the eventual outcome of today's contest is doubtful; for Cornell has been displaying this season a brand of ball which though weird has been brilliant...
...Wednesday, April 18, Loomis Institute, the first opponent on the trip, bowed to the Freshmen by the score of 17-4. R. W. Puffer Jr., on the Freshman mound throughout the nine innings, allowed the home team but six hits and showed a brand of control that prevented the issue from ever being in doubt...
...Kresge: "I applied for $5,000,000 life insurance and am asking that the commission of $150,000 go to a friend of mine. The only other $5,000,000 policy in this country is carried by Adolph Zukor, cinema potentate." President Harding: "I received three brand new straw hats from the National Association of Men's Straw Hat Manufacturers of America-a rough Sennit straw for daytime wear, a leghorn for motoring and golfing, and a smooth straw for evening wear." Lady Astor: "I introduced a bill into the House of Commons to prohibit the sale of intoxicants...
...humorist is usually a passing fancy with the public. His brand of wit catches the popular eye, holds it for a space, then is forgotten, as a new humorist comes along with a new method of twisting his phrases, of rolling his tongue or of winking his eye. Stephen Leacock's popularity has lasted longer than most. From Literary Lapses to My Discovery of England his books have been funny with a certain consistency. Canadian by birth, professor of political economy by profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly...
...What's the use of studying History anyway?" the modern skeptic is apt to declare, particularly if the impressions of his school days are fresh in his mind, and if he has had an over-dose of the "drum-and-trumpet" brand of History or of the genealogical and chronological table variety. "History is just a chaos of inconsequential facts", he is likely to add, "not the thousandth part of which is worth remembering. History has no laws that can be deduced from this welter of facts and applied for practical purposes, unless it be for a few vague generalizations...