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...tremendous rise in prices during and since the war has severely restricted the jollities which a student's budget formerly permitted; the gallant roysterer, who danced all night and slept all day, has been replaced by a changeling, a quiet fellow, pinched and shabby, who stands in line to get a little extra work, and who saves even on the midnight...
...Pretty Mocking Bird, the Polonaise from Mignon. Then the Mad Scene from Luna-flight upon flight of crazy silver bells pealing in a ruined steeple rimed with frost. That cold, brilliant audience rose to her; they clapped and clapped again; they cheered her until her car (which even the gallant 50 could scarce have budged) took her away. She had given them what they wanted, a flawless technical performance. Lind, Melba, Patti- Galli-Curci...
...black curiosity for what lay ahead. The second period began, Coach Rockne's regulars swept out in a cluster; Tiger nerves jangled. What Coach Rockne's incomparable strategy had begun, Halfback Crowley's mighty thews executed. Twice, after prolonged offensives, the ball went through the gallant Princeton defense for touchdowns. Score: Notre Dame 12, Princeton...
...study Chemistry in Berlin. Returning, he analyzed some table syrups for the Indiana Board of Health, found them "abominably adulterated." Made Chief Chemist to the U. S. Government, he began his famed food experiments on human beings. In his Bureau, he formed a "poison squad" of volunteers-12 gallant youths from the clerical force who swore to eat nothing beyond the curious diet he daily administered to them. He fed them on advertised foods that contained boracic acid, sulfates, benzoates, formaldehyde; he watched their cheeks grow lean, their temples hollow, their skins turn the color of whey. He watched...
...unusual interest to Harvard men is the meeting of two Harvard-coached teams, Haughton's Columbia eleven and Percy Wendell's Williams aggregation, the conquerors of Cornell. Most of the experts pick Williams as the logical victor, but the Morningside Heights team made a gallant showing against Penn last week and is improving rapidly. To this observer the odds seem to be very slightly on the side of Haughton's pupils, even though Williams has one of its greatest teams...