Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Butcher Paper...
Your magazine which came a few days is not the kind I wish. I will gladly purchase Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book in the clothlined butcher paper binding...
...musical comedy song-might well have gone back to another inventor of Bologna, Italy, who lived centuries before Guglielmo Marconi. This wight was a butcher, too fat to fight but keenly alive to the tortures of hunger which soldiers often suffer. As the warriors of Bologna prepared one time to sally forth against the Milanese, he conceived the notion of supplying many of them with chopped beef, pork and veal, seasoned and stuffed tightly into the intestinal tubing of a pig. He showed them how they might wind this provender about their necks or waists to carry it easily...
Thomas L. Butcher, President of the Kansas State Teachers' College,' offers an interesting if slightly illogical explanation of the present football phenomenon. Commenting on William Allen White's editorial in the Emporia Gazette denouncing the extreme popularity of the sport, President Butcher says that the game is valuable even in its modern overemphasis because it has replaced a greater evil--the practice of hazing. "Football is a blow-off valve for collegiates", says Mr. Butcher. Instead of leading the President's cow to the chapel platform the students now indulge in athletic worship, sometimes to the exclusion of all else...
...football? At Harvard the problem of violent welcomes has been nicely solved by years of tradition; there are many colleges and universities, however, where class rushes are still as popular, where Freshman fights are as great a ceremony as ever before the regime of football. So if President Butcher considers football as the lesser of two evils he is merely adding it to the greater. His refutation of Mr. White's argument is not sound. It is possible that he has found the game a preventative for hazing in his own college and if such is the case his difficulties...