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...local boy, the son of pioneer parents and was a boyhood schoolmate of Bob Crawford, who is well known to you, and a similar type of chap...
...with about 40 per cent writing twice a week. Eighteen per cent of the Freshmen interviewed preferred telephoning home once a week instead of writing. One Freshman denied sending any mail since he has been in college. He excused himself on the grounds that he was a most illiterate chap and had nothing to say anyway...
...this in the Yard, 28.7 percent in Lowell, 18 per cent in Dunster, and 19.8 per cent in Leverett. At first the CRIMSON's Winchell started to classify those ways of spending time, but he found that this embarrassed people a great deal. For example, there was the chap who solemnly asserted that he spent all his time studying. "Yes, of course," Crimson chell agreed, politely, trying hard to avoid looking at the debrit of last night's poker game. Then there was the Freshman who said, "Me? Sure I go out every night; the milkman puts...
...frequent question to Roman Catholic churchmen is: why so great a proportion of Catholics in prison populations? In last week's issue of The Commonweal, urbane Catholic weekly, was a reply by Father John P. McCaffrey, Roman Catholic chap lain at Sing Sing. Chief point: prison populations mirror the localities upon which they draw. Father McCaffrey demonstrates by a section in Massachusetts, as follows...
...Roebling never was "blind in one eye," nor was he ever regarded either at the mill or among his friends as "a bitter, hard man." Like all Roeblings, he was exceedingly reticent. But he had a fine sense of humor and was the most amazingly patient and uncomplaining old chap I ever heard of. He did contract caisson fever while building the Brooklyn Bridge, and was an invalid for upwards of 50 years. In the last 18 years of his life he had the companionship of a most devoted wife (his second). I knew him rather well and never heard...