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Among the chances for honest graft which come a legislator's way, few are more hallowed by time and custom than mileage allowances. U. S. Congressmen get 20? per mile for traveling between their homes and the Capitol between sessions, may collect whether they travel or not. Ohio legislators get only 3.6? per mile. Vexed perhaps by that discrepancy, Ohio's Representatives did their best to make up for it last week. Meeting for the first time since a "five-minute recess" which began July 22, the House voted to declare that it had held semiweekly "skeleton sessions...
...Student Council also voted to give a sum of $250 to the Red Cross in accordance with its annual custom. This gift is in lieu of a direct appeal to undergraduates for contributions...
Thus has been initiated a "custom", and so it may be expected that Harvard will go on happily hiding things and finding them again, centenary after centenary, until Time and the presidents of the University are no more...
Byron Haines, Washington's lefthanded, left-footed, drop-kicking halfback wears custom-made football shoes, and in them has become the best open-field runner on the Coast. Jim ("Sugar") Cain, campus representative for Beech Nut chewing gum, has played every position in Lhe backfield this season, functioned effectively in each. Washington has represented the West in the Rose Bowl twice before...
Following the custom of several years' standing, the Student Council voted a preliminary sum of $2,500 to Phillips Brooks House at a regular bi-weekly meeting held in University Hall last night...