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...turns to Driver Cal, asking: "Now, where's that half-breed guide of ours gone ?" And Cal replies : "Search me ! He was in the wagon until we got safely across the river." But the trenchant pen of the cartoonist* discovers the "half-breed guide"-and what does he wear but the face of Mr. Borah?-hiding behind the brush and whispering to the prowling savages who wear insurgent feathers in their topknots...
Samuel S. Childs, with ten other Childs children, was born on a meagre New Jersey farm near Bernardsville, where all his relatives now live in handsome houses on a shiny street called Childs Avenue. He, as a boy, desired to, wear the uniform of his country, and with this end in view entered the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, changed his mind, became a civil engineer, left engineering, entered the service of one Alfred W. Dennett, restaurant proprietor...
...College has become a stamping mill. Almost all men wear its stamp after graduation. Few of them roll about sufficiently, afterwards, to gain smoothness or polish or even to lose the narrow, confined shape it gives them...
...CRIMSON. "Tuxedo Coat and Pant $45.00." Of course if you are used to it, one pant may be well enough within the family circle where such little peculiarities are readily pardoned; but there are times when the second pant is desirable, not to say indispensable, even for semi-formal wear. It adds so much to one's sense of security, especially among strangers, to know that one pant is secure and unshakable on the right leg, and that the other pant occupies an impregnable position on the left. Beau Leggs
...college newspapers there should be crystallized the highest ideals of the younger generation whose point of view it represents. A policy of boosting its own college or university for the sake of boosting, one of "selling" the educational opportunities offered by the faculty, one of warning Freshmen to wear their green caps is not one that is reflective of such high ideals. It is on a par with all that is mean and laughable on Main Street. It is upon the rejection of this sapless philosophy, upon the conviction that the rising generation has a right to the respect which...