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...steadiest vote came in the Solid South, where not one college showed a majority for the Republican ticket, and very few had a Republican showing of more than 30 per cent...
...tutor, and tutors may sit at the regular tables with students. Although a certain amount of contact is made in this way, the average number of tutors sitting with students each meal is about two or three. At Eliot House, where the tutors' table is under heaviest and steadiest fire, and rightfully too, the event of a tutor dining with a student is in the nature of a minor phenomenon. Similar conditions in the other Houses lead to the inescapable conclusion that where a tutors' table exists the tutors will naturally gravitate toward it, forsaking the company of the student...
...Stephen Foster. Author Howard traces his love for Negro music to a "bound" black girl in the Foster household who used to take him to shouting colored meetings, to the early minstrel shows for which Foster wrote many of his songs. Edwin P. Christy, famed Mr. Bones, was his steadiest customer. He paid Foster $10.00 for the privilege of first singing "Oh! Susanna" which became the marching song for the California gold rush, $15.00 for "Old Folks at Home" because Foster let him sign himself as composer. "Old Folks at Home" started originally as "Way Down Upon de Pedee ribber...
Robert Grant, Huntington Hartford, and Sandy Davenport, all Seniors, will beyond doubt fill the top three berths, as they did last year. Grant is the present state champion; Hartford, a brilliant but somewhat temperamental player; and Davenport, one of the steadiest players under Harry Cowles' tutelage. It is likely that positions four and five on the A team will be strongly contested for by Sophomores G. G. Glidden, and E. R. Sargent, both of whom did unusually well on their Freshman team...
...other is that splendid American, Jim Farley." Col. Howe is the President-elect's "off-the-record" man. James Aloysius Farley, very much "on the record," is chairman of the Democratic National Committee. This team, together with Col. Edward Mandell House, will be Governor Roosevelt's closest and steadiest advisers during the next four months not only in the selection of the Cabinet but also in the makeready of the whole administration...