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...Flushing, Woodbury, Whitestone. He is loved everywhere, a big gentle lad who joins in at games as soon as the bell rings; and he is content everywhere?for whenever it seems good to him he walks away, down the country roads, over a plain, off to the shore to split waves with his strong body and loaf on the warm sand...
...Drys claim that it was because the Dry vote was split that Mr. Vare won. But their argument is not convincing. Undoubtedly many votes in the Pittsburgh region which the Mellon organization swung to Pepper, would on a pure Wet and Dry issue have been Wet. And it is even likely that Mr. Pinchot got some normally Wet votes among the miners. The factors which tend to emphasize the Wetness of Vare's victory are that in Philadelphia 14 of the 15 silk-stocking wards, which ordinarily the local machine is sure to find opposing it, turned round and voted...
...proposed the "project" for small colleges. Dr. Frank indorsed the plan for a large university because, "unless with decent promptness we bring a fresh coherence and fruitful comprehensiveness into . . . freshman and sophomore years of our colleges of liberal arts, the junior-college movement! may proceed as a merely mechanical split-off, a merely administrative secession, with no meaning beyond a decentralization of the chaos...
...private car padded with silver canvas. They mentioned the morning that this horse had taken his first workout in the chill dews of seven o'clock- a morning when the trainer had stood at the rail, frantically signaling Watson the exercise boy, to slow down, while the split-second gentry compared watches, believing that they must have made some mistake in timing this incredible horse. It was W. R. Coe's Pompey, as sure a winner as a sporting man could...
...each other in the same intimacy today. In fact, this is generally conceded by those who are close enough to undergraduate life to understand what the conditions really are. There are too many men, and the three years are too short, for general acquaintance; the tendency is therefore to split up into smaller units within a class, thus bringing into the situation another new element which, from the older point of view, is perhaps not quite satisfactory...