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These are rock bottom truths of the American situation of which we are reminded again by the report of the department of agriculture. In this report we have a picture of the vast fecundity of our country, the depth of its resources of wealth. The crops have been enormous, their value being about nine billions of dollars...
...ambitions of his father. The horror of the family reaches a climax upon the discovery that Brother William had adopted the career of a prize-fighter, and had retired from the ring as lightweight champion of the world under the name of "Gunboat Williams." Into this atmosphere, thick with rock-bound English traditions and customs. William introduces his slangy, breezy, Americanized presence, and thus furnishes the material for three acts of comic dialogue and situations, which approaches a sort of unintentional horse-play toward...
...December to race the Oxford harriers. In preparation for this race the Cornell team has been running a seven and a half mile course, which includes hills, ditches, sand and all possible difficulties of grade and bad footing. The six-mile course at Yale, although laid over West Rock, should be easy for them. The Princeton team is a good one and is led by Rogers, Martin, Penfield and Swede, runners who should finish in one of the first ten or fifteen places. They defeated Yale two weeks ago with little difficulty, Rogers capturing first place. It is doubtful whether...
...left side, played a strapping, slashing game. Lockwood, the broken bone in his foot sufficiently mended to allow him to play practically the entire game, was the fastest man in the line, not excepting the ends. Always down under kicks among the very first and so much solid rock on the defense, his work was especially encouraging in view of Hubbard's injury. He showed his speed in catching Michie when the latter was loose for a touchdown in the third quarter...
...Boyd Lucas of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Stanley John Gregory Nowak of Chicoped Falls; Thomas Fletcher Oakes of New York, N. Y.; George Owen Jr. of Newton; Frederic Welsey Pratt of Jabes Curry Watson Jr. of New York, N. Y.; Robert Worthington of Dedhain, and Clifton Powell Fordyee of Little Rock, Ark., manager...