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...American brook trout when President Coolidge takes himself and his retinue on a vacation. Equipped with hip boots and a fishin pole, and carrying a can of real bait--garden-worms of the common squirming variety--the Chief Executive descends on a stream in the Adriondacks or the Black Hills, and fills the Presidential breakfast table each day with the products of his own quiet skill in sport...
...baiters who spend their energies in endeavoring to get a rise out of him. An adept in the game of political angling, both as baiter and baited, finds a real recreation in dealing with a tribe whose wiles are of a more subtle order. The landing of a brook trout gives infinitely deeper satisfaction than the discomfiture of a poor political fish or fisherman. Further, there can be little doubt that the a worm are far more palatable than the big fish in the governmental swim...
...gain less from the other forms in moral stature, in renewed purpose in life, in kindness and in all the fishing beatitudes. We gain none of the constructive rejuvenating joy that comes from return to the solemnity, the calm and inspiration, of primitive nature. The joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure of the human...
John Milton Slade '28, of New Britain, Connecticut was elected vice-president, Albert Sidney Edmonds, Jr. '28, of Portland, Oregon treasurer, T. A. Taylor '28, of Stony Brook, Long Island corresponding secretary and cataloger and Richard, Currier Waldron '28, of Somerville recording secretary...
Those Juniors who were initiated Monday night are A. S. Edmonds, of Portland, Oregon; R. S. Kerston, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; J. M. Slade, of New Britain, Connecticut; T. A. Taylor, of Stony Brook, Long Island; and R. C. Waldron, of Somerville...