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...business was so good that the student managed to pay half of his tuition through this ingenious device. And personally I don't doubt it, for, as the story goes, one night the lock got stuck; and the next morning over a hundred students were before the dean to explain their tardiness and to pay fines ranging from ten shillings to five pounds...
...strikers to call a truce while he considered their demands: 1) better football equipment, 2) jobs for the team payable in board, 3) a football training table and dietitian, 4) an experienced full-time coach, 5) a team physician and trainer. Said a football spokesman, called upon to explain the Virginia Union desertion: "We were too hungry to get in there and battle those big country boys full of ham and kale. . . . Now this Lincoln team, they got a training table and eat good. ... All the fellows want to play in this game. It's a big traditional game...
...prison sentences, if & when the cases come to trial. Much talk about political spite work behind the indictments rose from the Union League and Rittenhouse clubs. And the Republican Ledger sprang to the bankers' defense with a story reporting the indictments under the head: ACCUSED DENIED RIGHT TO EXPLAIN IN MORTGAGE QUIZ...
...even to those who can see them, however, for the eastern one is half an hour slow, while its western mate, over by Boylston Street, lags an hour behind. Perhaps the fact that the faces of the dials are upside down, with 12 o'clock on the bottom, might explain their unfortunate derangement...
...bulletins issue out of Stillman Infirmary reporting the fall of forty-five odd students in the past two days, all struck down by a mysterious digestive disorder, the University hygiene officials are at a loss to explain the sudden advent of plague in the college. For although the victims have recovered with almost as much speed as they were taken ill, the infection has defied the best medical detectives, and despite the care with which the University surrounds the preparation of food, the causes of the plague remain unfathomed...