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...professor gives out a reading assignment to a class of two to three hundred students. An hour later a few energetic students race to Widener and draw out the available copies of the hook to be read at leisure in their rooms. These copies will be surrendered the morning of the next test in the course and not before...
...public is due to the mysterious nature of the substances. The belief in the supernatural is even now highly prevalent and other things being even, appeals to that belief usually bring results. The peculiar, mysterious properties of the vitamines has popularized them and they have been swallowed hook, line, bob, and sinker by the public...
...some sort or other. The college catalogue looks far more impressive when every member of the faculty has two or three magic letters after his name. The result is that a tradition is established, and any man who would obtain a desirable teaching berth must first obtain by hook or crook some sort of fancy degree. This would not be serious if such degrees were always sure hall-marks of a man's scholastic training and ability; but the more wide-spread the idea becomes that no man of science or letters is intellectually respectable unless stamped with some kind...
Chief Quartmaster's Assistant Leon Beck Hook...
Score, Freshmen 88, Reading High School 14. Baskets from floor, Gordon 17, Stevens 16, Sipp 6, MacDonald 2. Michellint 2, Ham, Gehrke Free throws, Hook 4, Gordon 3, Referee, Coady...