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...account of boils. He will be back, however, tomorrow, when Coach Stevens will hold a time trial over the four-mile course. No noticeable change has been remarked in the work of the crew since Hoover has been in it, showing that each man knows his job and can fit in a new member easily...
...When I left grammer school, I planned to learn the printer's trade," he began. "I thought my lameness would interfere least with this occupation. All summer I looked for a job, but none turned up. So, when the schools opened in the fall, I drifted into high school, thinking that I could find a job as well while in school as out. Two years passed and I was still looking for that chance to learn the printer's trade...
...family income and permitted to send the money with the order. The printing outfit proved to be substantial and with it I managed to earn considerable cash, printing tickets and cards and small programs. And all the while I was thinking my work would help me find a job in a printing office...
...Among other things, I enlarged my printing outfit and during the summers I took it to a resort in Maine and opened my own job office. At the same time I served as night clerk in one of the hotels. For a while I printed the menu at Memorial Hall and taught night school, and for two terms I worked in the Library. I mended shoes and repaired bicycles, and to this day a certain Dean tells me with much gusto of the miracle I performed on his wheel while he finished dessert during the lunch hour with his family...
...four years had the outlook seemed hopeless. That was in the spring of the senior year. The city in which I had been teacing night school ran temporarily out of funds and I could not collect my salary. I had purchased a supply of paper for a printing job which failed me, and a late spring kept snow on the ground so that carfares ate up my earnings as fast as I received them. One morning, as I went to classes, I spent my last cent on carfare. I wore two rubbers for the left foot, and the world looked...