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Although this double accounting at first blush seems misleading, and somewhat remeniscent of New Deal Treasury methods, the transfer of compulsory Freshmen sports simply means that the University has begun to take on its own shoulders the responsibility for Harvard's athletics. It follows in direct line with President Contant's policy of eventually setting up an endowment fund large enough to divorce the college activities from dependence on football receipts...
...resign from the U. S. Senate because of his accepting money and favors from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, I fail to see where he achieved any greatness. To me he ranks with Jim & Ma Ferguson as cheap politicians whose memory makes decent Texans blush with shame...
...seems to help for some reason. Then, too, Baby Marylyn some day would like to know what sort of a person her mother was and maybe she will be consoled when she makes mistakes and gets into jams to know that mother was a champion at making mistakes. I blush a little (very little) at the idea of her reading some of the stuff in this book. I have been and am such a fool." When Dr. Thorpe's Iawyers mentioned the name of John Barrymore, whom they proposed to question in connection with "statements in Miss Astor...
...conclusion be it said that there remains, if any there was, no part in the performance that would bring a blush to the cheek of the most sensitive Boston virgin. And the only thing that bothered this reviewer was the sight of Mr. Hull's slimy, grimy Southern feet, when he took off his shoes...
...recent formation of the League of Yellow Journalists. Less than a week after the inception of the organization, the student body of Harvard (or, rather, that part of it that reads the Crimson) is being treated to the spectacle of a Red Scare that would make Mr. Hearst blush only because of the amateur nature in which it is concocted. It is with this amateur nature that I would take issue...