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...principal causes for it. It is really no wonder that many people have come to think a college is nothing but a training school for safety-pin kings and toothpick magnates. Millions of broadsides are sent through the mails every year by dispensers of capsule libraries and vest-pocket universities filling people's heads with deadly statistics. One lure to success by the read-five-minutes-a-day method has this convincing argument...
...Jacinto," as they called him, advanced from Commander-in-Chief of the Texas army to President of the Republic of Texas. After Texas was admitted to the Union, in 1845, he was sent to Washington as Senator. There he went, moving once more, but going with his tiger- skin vest, his shoulder blanket and his sombrero. He would sit in the Senate all day whittling sticks, occasionally rising to deliver an oration. In his bedroom at the hotel, he hung signs saying, "My bedtime is nine o'clock...
...remains for some enterprising "Widow" to supply radio outfits for the vest pocket with directions for tuning in. Then diddling with the dials will replace the anxious chewing pens, and static will be the only excuse for a "flunk...
...small diamond stud glittered two inches above the top button of Gov. Bryan's shirt, but no vest hampered the comfortable bulge of his waistline. The General's habitual double breasted gray coat was buttoned, but his blue silk cravat was flying free...
More recently an eminent justice, surreptitiously doffing his wig, began to pen another story, the story of Johnny and his Magic Vest. But all children did not begin to rejoice. In fact a few of them may now be weeping, for last week the eminent justice, laying aside both wig and pen, accepted a portfolio. It was not an author's portfolio, however, for with it goes a title, the Hon. Curtis Dwight Wilbur, newly appointed Secretary of the Navy (see Page...