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...McKean, "Bloody Monday", and Reinhardt. He does not even know "Schneider's Band", a song endeared to the graduates. Even the battered bat is passing, though no one has yet thought to shed a tear over it. These superficials of college life are mere signs of the times, out-grown like other fashions. But the memory of the University's past creates a common background for the changing generations. Efforts like those of the Father and Son Societies, recently made effective by the "Sons of 1901", serve to bind the past more closely with the present, and to save...
...befriended Gwendolyn Shorts (nee Schwartz), the only daughter of a wealthy Middle Western mother, who was doing her best to " d�but" her daughter into Washington society. Gwendolyn's debut flivvered, but Ralph did not. He was canny, waited and won her and her fortune. He had grown a trifle tubby with the passage of years?he would grow more corpulent still, but he had succeeded. The fleshpots were his. He ends, for the present, as Executive Secretary of the National Commercial (lobbying) Association, at a salary of $25,000 a year. Before he dies, one imagines, he will have...
...Pennsylvania State College, seven students have gallantly sacrificed themselves to "tobacco testing". Each of them will smoke thirty-six cigars, made of specimens grown on experimental farms, and report on the "burning quality, taste, aroma and character...
President Harding took an important step when he settled a little dispute which had grown up among the members of the Tariff Commission. Great political as well as economic results may follow the President's decision...
...since then, has grown pugnacious...