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...practically any price for their goods that they close, in spite of the fact that they had to pay out great wages. The wage earners constituted the second group that benefited financially last year. These could afford to pay the soaring prices for their wages in most cases kept stride with or even ahead of the cost of commodities...
After these first fatal minutes the Brown eleven struck its stride. By taking advantage of the breaks they kept the Crimson team from piling up an imposing score, which looked probable because of the ease with which the touchdown was made. A fumble by Coulter, recovered by R. K. Kane '22 on the Brown 32-yard line, looked like a chance for a second score, but a University offside penalty spoiled the attack. Brown rallied and forced R. Horween to try for a field goal; which failed...
...most imitative of new notes and squawks, some still realize that beauty is truth, truth beauty. Both Mr. Ryan, in his pantheistic God's Ghost, haunting, mysterious, dewy, curiously suggesting tones of Wordsworth and Keats, and Mr. Chambers, in the Sinn Fein, frankly swinging into Kipling's virile stride to tell how men may cheer and die, not only have something to say but show that they love music of word and of line and understand the beauty of form. Miss Campbell strives honorably but is not so successful: not even the exigencies of rhyme can justify the momentary shifting...
With the rounding out of the first month of its existence, the S. A. T. C. has reached its full stride at the University. The men have been given thorough training in the rudiments of military science, namely, close order drill, physical exercises, guard duty, and the elementary work in the Small Arms Firing Manual. Besides this they have also been instructed for a short period every morning in the new British bayonet-fighting system. A bayonet assault-course is in the process of construstion and parry-sticks have been ordered...
...account of the irregularity of practice, the College eleven is only now stepping into its fast stride. Coach Donovan has been giving his players strenuous drilling, however, and expects the team to start off the season with a victory. The Tufts aggregation has been developing rapidly in the last few weeks and because of its wealth of veteran material, expects to carry the pigskin back to Medford...