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Like nearly all large cities, Chicago is grievously misgoverned;-but its misgovernment, being particularly insidious, deserves especial attention as a warning to the rest of the nation. Its mayor, "Big Bill," surnamed "The Big Bunk," is hardly more than a political moron, but his misgoverning hand is guided by Fred Lundin, one of the shrowdest craftsmen in American politics, who has built up an all-encompassing system under which nearly every employe pays tribute to the coffers of its chief;-a system which is yet to be defeated at the county polls...
...football, to baseball, crew, and hockey, in the necessity of drilling in details and technique. "Some men may say that Cornell and Pennsylvania get their victories because of conditions different from those here at Harvard, but any man had better throw that idea out of the window as bunk. At Cornell they have 250 men each fall for the cross country team alone. They fight with every drop of fighting blood they have." He insisted that attention must be given to details of how to work, how to run, how to train, and unceasing fight...
...over-time play. Roughness characterized the play of both teams especially during the last half. On the defense the Freshmen were strong, but the center and forwards missed many easy chances to score at short distances. The line-up was as follows: FRESHMEN. TRAINING SCHOOL. Murray, l.f. r.f., Bunk Reed, r.f. l.f., Cairns Smith, c. c., Becket Burnham, l.g. r.g., Linnehan, Gaw Howard, r.g. l.g., Parks...
Score--Freshmen, 10; Training School, 8. Goals--Smith 2, Reed, Burnham, Bunk, Cairns. Goals from fouls--Murray 2, Cairns...
...from all the contemporaneous American papers he can get. There is no humorous department in the Chinese newspaper. The newspaper office has no exchanges scattered over the floor, and in nearly all other things it differs from the American establishment. The editorial room is connected by a ladder with bunks on a loft above, where the managing editor sleeps, and next to it is, invariably, a room fitted with an opium bunk and a lay out. Evidences of domestic life are about the place - pots, kettles and dishes taking up about as much room as the press. If an editor...