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...bail your President, Jeff Davis, and returned to face in consequence almost financial ruin. May I send you a word of greeting to say how glad I am that so many of you are breaking through party lines to vote for a great American, Herbert Hoover. "Herbert Hoover has grown up in the clean country, an orphan wrestling with poverty for a living and an education. After gaining these with his great natural powers he was called to carry on from China to Australia immense constructive works at the head of armies of co-workers with whom he has never...
...followed closely behind them they seemed to be in violent altercation. Drawing closer he was able to discover that it was the cuisine aboard the U.S.S. Texas which was under discussion. Apparently everything was wrong with the chow. It seemed that the spuds had been grown in a swamp, the coffee fabricated from bilge-water, the beef unfit for the fishes, and the canned willie-words failed them, but not expletives...
Just think of how the grown-ups in the dean's office must feel. They builded better than they knew when they selected as proctors individuals young enough to understand the child mind. The day may still be saved, however, if the idea is carried far enough. Incase the proctor's committee is at its wit's end, it may be well to offer a few suggestions. The writing-out idea is a good one especially as it may keep the proctors out of harms way correcting papers. After mid-years the stint will probably have to be extended...
...become trustees of the original Chicago Sunday Evening Club and the beginning and continued existence of the club have been due to his efforts. Looked upon as experimental, the club found instant favor, had an average at tendance its first year of 800 persons. In 19 years it has grown to an average at tendance of 2,500 persons. A vested choir of 100 voices sings at the hebdomadal gatherings...
...some machinery for the control of the surplus during a year when the farmers produce an exceptional crop. This could be let out in the lean years and the price of agricultural commodities stabilized. The government should establish some such machinery as that by which Brazil controls the coffee grown there...