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...back to the two Houses; they both have been having secret practice. This is bad. It may explain the panels in Lowell House tower, but it defeats the whole purpose of the Plan itself. The boys are supposed to chum around with each other. To segregate the football squads is not fair to the others. Besides it wouldn't be at all surprising to find the Dunster House team coming down to dinner and taking up a whole table by themselves. They might not pay any attention to their supporters and, worse, their supporters may not pay any attention them...
...characters are fictitious." He tells of the fighting on the Somme and Ancre fronts during the last part of 1916; his characters are a company of an English regiment he calls the Westshires. Hero is Bourne, a gentleman ranker, who has come through the Somme battles with his two chums, Shem and Martlow, without a scratch. Not regular soldiers, they are veterans now, have the veteran's point of view, try only to do as much as they can when they have to, make themselves as comfortable as possible betweenwhiles Fellow enlisted men like and admire Bourne, have seen...
...first act he weans his weak-kneed son from a dawning individuality to a minor post in his deadening little world of public success. But his memory has been prodded by the appearance of his school-days chum; and when he goes to make an important speech in the shires he sleeps in the bedroom which was the headquarters of his early dream-world. He dreams; his beloved Sally is there as always. In the morning he finds his "beauteous maiden" seated on the garden wall, so romantically like the dream that he renounces his career, and the high likelihood...
...course. They will be required to take, or rather to pay for--a less objectionable way of attaining the same practical result--a certain number of meals in the dining-room every week. Each of them will have his own bedroom and study, or share the study with a chum...
...Manufacturers Association paid him $2,500 for the same purpose and the National Association of Wool Manufacturers $1,800. He also did business on a contingent basis for the greeting card industry. He had, he said, gotten his start in Washington by means of a card from his college chum. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, which still helped him approach Democratic Senators. Lobbyist Burgess had requested the dismissal of Mr. Koch because, he explained, he had put the pottery industry in "the wrong light" before the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Koch was not dismissed, though potters carried their complaints even...