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...freshmen. Queer and foolish in their actions, they scuffed off to their collegiate rooms a mile away from the "hill." Here they would play their victrolas, tinkle their absurd pianos, sing perhaps a parody of a song whose heroes should be Frankie and Meiklejohnnie, and even, it may be, pin sad pennants to their walls. Yet, in the next year, unlike the freshmen at Harvard, the freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, or most other freshmen in the U. S., something might happen to these freshmen that would change their minds. Reading about the bright city on whose finest temple...
...turn out ponderous periods, life is often brightened by the gorgeous retorts of the heathen. For example, this is the answer one Hooverizer got when he approached an insurgent South Dakota editor: "I am for Hoover just about as far as you can throw our party elephant by the pin feathers with your arm broken in four places...
...Durham, N. H., one Helen Bernaby, a college student, hurled a rolling pin 90 ft., 8 in., which is further than such a thing is known to have been hurled before...
Neat as a pin.... hair brushed, tie straight, collar pinned, but slightly too large.... coat and trousers immaculately clean and as well pressed.... small black notebook in hand in which are inscribed, no doubt, every impression, every appointment and much more.... pant legs spiralling down to worn weatherbeaten heel-worn shoes...
This product is from the big city. His nifty derby tells you that at once. And as you follow down you find a starched blue collar on shirt to match. Tie of sombre hue, is neatly in place with an exceedingly small knot over the pin. Vest is in prominent display, and thin gold chain stretches from upper pocket to upper pocket with a slight dip. Breast pocket display cousists of corner of handkerchief with tiny monogram. Perfect crease leads the eye down to slightly wide cuffs breaking on over polished shoes. If it were but slightly colder, an immaculate...