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...jockeys. Earl Sande, America's greatest jockey, 24 years old. Has ridden 160 winners in a single season and has won all important stakes in the U. S. and Canada with the exception of the Futurity and the Hopeful. His income, $50,000 a year. His riding weight, 115 pounds. His only superstition, black cats...
Steve Donoghue, premier jockey of the world, 38 years old. Has ridden five Derby winners, three of them in succession, winning thereby the coveted gold spurs. Considered a wealthy man. Rides at 108. In England, tales are told of subjects literally kissing his feet when he entered a cafe shortly after winning the Derby...
...Henry B. Fuller, come on from Chicago for a visit, perhaps to live in Manhattan permanently. Fuller, whose delicately conceived novels and verses are ranked high in contemporary literature in spite of the fact that he has written vers libre, would probably be considered by the sex-ridden rebels of the new writing a Victorian. He is far from that. This shy, small, smiling little white-haired man is a volcano of opinions and ideals. He reads The Dial? which is often more than I can do. He follows current writing avidly. He admires the best work of his younger...
...lawyers-in-government. "The lawyers enact the laws, interpret the laws and enforce the laws. The Government is a lawyer-government, and we are a lawyer-ridden country...
...this country, especially the larger colleges, hazing and bullying seem to be extinct traditions, though a feature of them is preserved in certain forms of initiation. It is true that the recent case, at a western college, of a student who was ridden on a rail, tarred and feathered because he cheered for the opposites team, shows that individuality is not yet regarded wholly as a virtue. But the better fashion, now for those who fail to conform, is to let them completely alone. The old English practice of sending a man to Coventry worked better than hazing: the latter...