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...reduction of the public's virtual control of college football. We favor the plan in principle, but we do not believe the program advocated by this paper is either practicable or desirable. The fact that football has become so immense and has gained such a following should be proof against the drastic punishment prescribed. In its present condition it is somewhat of a mountain, but we would not go to the other extreme and make it puny...
...honorary degree. It remains for some capable writer to give him immortality. Yet perhaps he has that already. Somebody may have found in a place more adapted to consistent originality the answer to Dicken's question when he first saw Zip--"What is it?" And there is not real proof that spirits can appreciate modern literature...
...Legend of the Durms, a serious dramatic monologue near the beginning of the second act. If the company are human, they, and especially Eaton himself, will feel pardonably neverous about including anything so "heavy." That the Legend of the Drums drew a few guffaws on Graduates' Night, is no proof that it will be laughed at before a starch and chiffon audience in fact, to the contrary. The Legend of the Drums is not only an excellent narrative poem, but it fits in admirably with the spirit of the play. If an audience is forced to laugh too much...
...example, got Representative Weaver of North Carolina?the kind of man that can make a jury weep. Interminably, passionately, he went through the record to show that there was no proof that Judge English had committed any crime. It is more serious, said he, to impeach a man than to convict of crime. Without substantial proof of crime, there can be no impeachment. He pleaded with the House to remember "the wild pulsations of a father's heart," not to "tear the ermine from this, old father," to remember that...
...goes her own way. Last fall she wanted to drive a car since John refused to spend his time in the cinema at Burlington--she did. And the rumor is that she had to go out of Charlotte to get the license, for a tree near the store is proof positive that she could get none in Charlotte. "Wish by gar it had a kilt her," said John. Charlotte has its cynics. Though John has reason to be. Did she not after bearing and bearing with all the twenty children bob her hair--pour le sport. Charlotte...