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Perhaps the fact that college years begin in the fall has something to do with it too. The adjectives applied to autumn weather--crisp, brisk, stimulating--are always suggestive of activity. Who knows what the effect would be if the opening came during that first warm spell when spring fever is rampant? In the midst of February slush when even the boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There...
Yesterday's practice was short and snappy with a major portion of the time given over to individual coaching. The linemen had the usual blocking and tackling session, under Coach Dunne. Coach Casey took a skeleton team and ran team through a brisk drill, stressing forward passing and pass defence. After two teams had gone through kickoff formations. Teams A, B, and C ran signals for a quarter of an hour...
Coach Horween yesterday departed from his usual custom of scrimmaging against the seconds and pitted Teams A and B of his University squad against each other in a brisk hour's workout...
...youngest Prime Minister of a British Dominion, and the only one who keeps an airplane in the cellar of his house, is Australia's brisk, zestful Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 46. Last week he fought and lost on the most vital issue in Australian policies. One vote cost him defeat- the vote of a rich, debonair yachtsman who raced in Sir Thomas Lipton's defeated Shamrock...
Thomas William Lamont. First authoritative word that choleric Chancellor Snowden was losing the support of British financiers came at London from Thomas William Lamont, brisk, decisive, crinkly-eyed partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. Chatting with a correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune?a paper on which he once worked as a reporter?Mr. Lamont said that, although "The City" (financial London) at first strongly backed Chancellor Snowden's demand for £2,000,000 per annum more sponge cake, there was now lively apprehension lest that same demand should wreck the Conference and prevent adoption of the Young...