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...George Washington, enraged, once allegedly hurled an inkstand at a wall...
...current issue, the New Republic turns from the crying evils of Wall Street and the White House, and discusses with the same merry gusto the crying evils of the football field. In a long editorial captioned "Pigskin Preferred", reprinted elsewhere in this mornings CRIMSON, the editors discuss with mock seriousness the increasing emphasis which is being placed on football in general, and Harvard football in particular, ending with the solemn proposal that college football teams be placed on a truly business-like basis by the formation of stock companies, organized to manipulate the interests of college football teams in such...
...sits His Majesty on a carpeted dais. Over his head a monstrous curtain is furled with droops of golden cable. His crown rests beside him; a sceptre leans in the crook of his arm; a sword is propped against his leg; the royal coat of arms, painted on the wall, has the look of an automobile trademark. And in the stiffness of the paper-doll body under its innumerable ribbons, sashes, badges and magnificent sweep of falling draperies-in the exaggerated dandyism of the spindling white-stockinged legs, in the pointed hands, in the dainty bearded face, burns a discomfort...
Other putts, of course, had contributed to this result, particularly some made by Edith Cummings, Mary K. Browne, Dorothy Campbell Kurd (late titleholder), Bernice Wall of Oskosh, and Alexa Stirling Fraser. It was by deadly putting that a certain Mrs. Letts of Illinois put out Mrs. Hurd. Miss Cumming's uncertainty with her littlest club was her only demonstrable inferiority to Miss Collett in a semi-final match so close that neither was at any time more than one up, but by that score Miss Collett won. Mrs. Fraser, as Alexa Stirling, three time national champion, long ago demonstrated...
Massacusetts Hall, dating from 1720, and the oldest University dormitory, is one of the contributors to the Chicago Tribune's new building. The base of one wall in this skyscraper, completed this summer, is composed entirely of stones taken from buildings made famous by their history and antiquity. Imperial Rome, Ancient Greece, Egypt of the Ptolemies, and the Orient, are all represented by blocks of marble or granite taken from their most notable monuments...