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...night when a Ford Coupe, belonging to Mr. Edward Huse, an assistant caretaker of the University buildings ran wild without a driver from the Harvard Square Garage to Holyoke Place where its course was suddenly checked by an electric light pole. The accident was cause by a faulty stater-plug which released itself when the car was being pushed with the brakes off and started the car. It had reached a speed of 15 miles and was skimming along beside the curb before it crashed into the pole, smashing the fenders and tearing off the wheels and turning completely over...
...count for first places. What the team needs are those fighters who come through in the finishes with second or third place points which must be had to win any meet. These positions don't fall to star performers but to men who are willing to work and plug every day, and who try to profit by the things which the coaches and experienced men tell them." He then outlined the work of the season and the training rules which will be enforced...
...siege of the McAlpin by Columbia sophomores, the annual mud-rush at Podunk, and the arrest of a college student for parking too near a fire plug stimulate more frenzied press comment and red-typed leads than the forming of the League of Nations Collegiate Council, the publication of the "Gadfly" and an address by President Eliot together. Naturally, the papers print what their readers want, and the public's interest in college activities is still confined to the lurid incidents which popularly constitute "college life...
...many honorable members with swelled faces.... caused by the quantity of tobacco they contrive to stow within the hollow of the cheek. It is strange enough too, to see, an honorable gentleman leaning back in his tilted chair with his legs on the desk before him, shaping a convenient plug with his penknife, and when it is quite ready for use, shooting his old one from his mouth, as from a popgun, and clapping the new one in its place. I was surprised to observe that even steady old chewers of great experience are not always good marksmen...
...member from the state where they smoke in the "halls of legislation" may be an indication that the worm is turning again. When the stogy, the pipe, and the "butt" obtain as strong a hold on the senatorial mouths as once had the "quid" and the "plug", the non-smoking rule perhaps will be abolished. Then a later-day Dickens looking on the majesty that is the Senate and beholding each man as a "smoke-vomiting chimney" may well be led to describe the Senate chamber as a "boundless furnace... where a suffocating wind the pilgrim smites with instant death...