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Members of the football team and social service workers are in especial demand as orators for New England gatherings, according to a statement yesterday by officials of the Phillips Brooks House. W. N. Bump '28, Chairman of the Bureau, receives daily five or six communications asking for Harvard men to speak on various topics at local meetings. Many of these letters come from districts as far removed as Maine and Vermont and enclose train fare for the itinerant elocutionist...
Yale's vaunted football machine, heralded after the Dartmouth game as the probable Eastern champion, and floating ever since in the clouds of adulation, fell last Saturday with a great disillusioning bump, before a great Brown eleven by a score...
...Bump, Bumpkin...
...biceps, patted his stomach, pouted his chest, lay on the ground. A plank was laid across his abdomen, an automobile driven towards him with the righthand wheels on the plank. Otis Dowland empurpled his face with straining, scowled up at the crowd, as the automobile ascended its human bump. The car's driver, a stupid bumpkin, stalled the engine in mid-plank. Strongman Dowland grimaced, retched, shrieked. The car was pushed away. Strongman was whisked to a hospital, where doctors pronounced his vitals to be seriously mashed...
Whatever the free and self-governing Republican voters of Pennsylvania may ultimately decide to do, it is clear that Senator Norris by his words and Mr. Wilson by his appropriate presence, have placed an inescapable bump in the path of Pennsylvania consciences...