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...past is rising before the Yardlings like a cloud--a past crammed with visions of irresponsible Presidents who have made their roommates Jubilee chairmen and then kidded them playfully for running $1000 in the red. The Freshmen shiver when they hear of a former ice-cream cater, or a milk-drinker, who rose to triumph on his illgotten publicity. It's all very unfortunate, when an election should be such a fine thing, a stimulant to class interest, even a lesson in citizenship. Yes, the Freshmen are right, the old system must...
...year at the University of California, he dropped out and went to work for an Oakland paper. But he soon decided that journalism was not his line, returned to the university and graduated with highest honors. He likes reading science books of all kinds, band music, complicated ice-cream sodas. His thick black hair stands almost straight up, as though he himself carried a constant electrical charge...
There is still, in this enlightened age, the superstition which prevents many people from eating crab and ice cream or milk at the same meal. This is entirely a superstition, not based on one iota of fact; yet, we dined at a famed Philadelphia club as late as last year and had to forego ice cream for dessert because we had eaten crab meat for luncheon! Many of Maryland's finest recipes for cooking the crab call for milk, and we, after the Philadelphia incident, have made a point of conspicuousness outside of the "Free State," and always couple...
...explain his about-face to the stockholders who had trusted him with their proxies. Fortnight ago he rendered his apologies. Into Manhattan's Bankers Club for lunch trooped 85 Barnsdall stockholders and well-wishers. Honor guest was President Reeser. Host was Stockholder Rich. After oysters, turkey and ice cream he explained his conversion. His fellow stockholders digested, applauded, forgave...
...cents policies of the company. The management provided some discussion of generalities, including "sound economic ideas" and "costly experiments with business," but what most stockholders seemed to understand best were bowls of Wheaties and Corn Kix-dished up out of a big soup tureen and served with sugar and cream-partaken of by guests (owners) and hosts (management...