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...really nothing at Yale now to induce a man to stay there. Realizing the obstacles that lay in their path the graduates resorted to attrition; they did not care to antagonize the boys, so they appealed to the "old time Yale spirit" that lies latent in every student's bosom. They want to build up a "binding tradition" a sort of "every week is stay at home week at Yale" spirit. This ought to do it, if anything will. The "week end tradition" if carried on with the diligence of former fathers by the present sons will do much...
...begin with, in the quarter-final match between burly young John Doeg* of California and Tilden's bosom friend, Frank Hunter, Tilden insisted on audibly coaching Hunter from the sidelines. So annoying did this become that the tournament committee asked him to leave the enclosure. Then Tilden declined to play his match with John Van Ryn until the Doeg-Hunter contest was over, explaining that the applause (for Tilden) of the spectators might disturb Hunter. The committee hesitated. If Tilden were crossed too often he might leave the tournament, jeopardizing its financial success. But Dr. Philip B. Hawk, acting...
...sent Edward Donahue Pierson to audit the books. As Pierson was returning from Nashville to Chicago, someone shot him to death near Scottsburg, Ind., stole his audit report. Arrested for complicity in the murder but free on bail is Dr. B. J. F. Westabrook of Indianapolis, President Williams' bosom friend. Arrested for the murder and still in jail is George Washington, Indianapolis detective.* Sought for extradition from Tennessee as accomplices are Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend, secretary of the Publishing Board, executive committeeman of the Federal Council of Churches, and his son Arthur Melvin Townsend...
First an expedient, Cuba has grown to be a passion with Mr. Byoir. Through the Post's columns he fights her cause with all the fervor of a native. Cubans took him to their collective bosom for his magnum opus, a thoroughgoing study of the sugar industry and a series of smashing antitariff editorials which, spread over the front page of the Post, were widely quoted...
...about Fellowes that the tallest tales are told. Of all the fictions his journalistic cronies have written about him, those which amuse him most are the fables connecting him with people he could never have known. He is credited with having been a bosom friend of Phineas Taylor Barnum, whom he, as an infant, vaguely remembers having once seen saluting patrons at his show. Legend also has it that he frequently played at dice with Showman Adam Forepaugh. Mr. Fellowes does recall having once seen Showman Forepaugh in his father's Hartford, Conn., drug store...