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...seems to us, as we reflect, that this tendency for rooters mutually to disregard the old standards of sportsmanlike conduct is to a large degree caused by the professionalism which has become so integral a part of American sport. The average undergraduate spectator is not now dependent on intercollegiate athletes for his sport spectacles. A tremendous growth of professional teams of high excellence has colored the college rooter's judgment of his teams with standards of professional excellence. Together with high prices of admission levied for virtually all intercollegiate contests of importance, this has engendered a feeling that the athletes...
...Vagabond has been sorely buffeted by the boisterous winds of the past two days, and the slanting rain which somehow seems to penetrate his every garment has caused him to reflect sadly that even the erudite and philosophically-minded race of Vagabonds are susceptible to the same bodily ills as their more mundane brethren. And you can take the Vagabond's word for it; there are better heated apartments in Cambridge than the draughty towers of Memorial Hall. Though true to his ancient abode, at times he things with envy in his heart of the steam heated warmth...
...Angeles Enrico Caruso Jr., 26, loud, barrel-chested son of the late great tenor, is taking singing lessons. His instructor: Adolfo de la Huerta, onetime Provisional President of Mexico. Said Junior Caruso: "I never believed I could reflect credit on [my father's] memory. But I feel now that I can. . . . Dad told me: 'The cemeteries are full of tenors who tried to sing Othello.' I want to sing that one best of all. . . . That would make Dad proud...
...name of small, smart Isidor Jacob Kresel ? Seabury counsel, onetime director of, lawyer for and borrower from the defunct bank ? was frequently brought into the damning Bank of U. S. testimony. Forthwith, Counsel Kresel demanded that he be subpoenaed to defend himself against "baseless statements designed to reflect upon me." The bank's officers went to court to get Lawyer Steuer disqualified as their inquisitor...
...Hoover grinned. ¶ Over a new 3,000-mi. wire leased by the Associated Press to connect New York and Mexico City, President Hoover sent the first message to President Ortiz Rubio. Excerpt: "I earnestly trust that the news that will flash back and forth over this wire will reflect an ever increasing sympathy between our countries...