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...University, second 150-pound eight furnished a very close competition in its mile sprint against the Engineer lightweights of the same class, losing to a last-minute Beaver rally by a little over a length. The winning time was six minutes and three seconds...
...progress last week of Candidate Hoover, busy beaver-man of the present Administration, towards theRepublican nomination, was as follows...
...your otherwise admirable write-up of Hoover as the "The Beaver Man" in March 26 issue, there is, I believe, one startling misstatement. You say, "He is a very, very bad public speaker...
...Lowden. While Hooverites counted their chickens and hoped they would hatch (see "The Beaver-Man"), Lowdenites did likewise. They counted up as high as 200 delegates, "sure" on the first ballot. Candidate Lowden's prospects were brighter for carrying his home
...clear-cut political or social theory except a quiet "individualism," which leaves most individuals groping. Material wellbeing, comfort, order, efficiency in government and economy-these he stands for, but they are conditions, not ends. A technologist, he does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell where, with his extraordinary abilities, he would lead them. He needs, it would seem, to undergo a spiritual crisis before he will satisfy as a popular leader...