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Yesterday afternoon in the New Indoor Athletic Building the University basketball squad met to begin the first half of its winter season, lasting until the midyear examination period, during which, contrary to the usual custom among eastern colleges, there is to be no practice...
...custom requires, Vice President Charles Curtis gave a Christmas dinner last week to the 19 Senate pages (age 12 to 16) in the Capitol restaurant.* Likewise as custom requires, the pages gave the Vice President a Christmas present. Page Philip J. ("Peewee") Bassford passed to Vice President Curtis an enormous wooden gavel with the statement: "We have christened this gavel 'Discipline' and it is guaranteed to mash 'em flat...
Contrary to custom, Vice President Curtis did not make to his young guests a long inspirational speech about "getting on in the world." Instead Page Laureston Porter read a poem to the Vice President, the composite work of all the pages, entitled: "The Pages' Christmas Dinner." Excerpts...
...choose It again." . . . So thus the tradition established in fact Decreed a Vice President thereafter shall act. Now when Dawes, with his pipe with its inverted flue Appeared on the scene, which to him seemed quite new And was told of the dinner which custom decreed He promptly assented and ordered a feed. . . . So it came to pass that when Dawes went away A friend of the pages, Charles Curtis, held sway...
...Packard in its line of eights showed small change in body design but a new fuel pump which provides a steady feed and prevents boiling of the gasoline. All new Packards have wider and longer springs, automatic chassis lubrication. For the first time Packard is showing its own custom-made bodies. Prices: $2,385 up. Hudson worked two years on the new riveted body for its eights. All the exterior hardware has been revised. In the motor, show points are: bigger bore, labyrinthine cooling for the oil, a vibration dampener, bigger water pump. Gear-shifting is aided by a duralumin...