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...award, whereas if they had been cut, they might have received the minor insignia with the second team. The new ruling would be commendable, except in the special case of Seniors who have played three years on the squad, but never opposed Yale. Here it has often been the custom for the player to be voted a major H. If this custom could be continued, with the minor letters being awarded at the end of Sophomore and Junior years, the recommendation would be of advantage to all concerned...
...First of four automobile salons showing high-priced and custom-built cars; at the Drake Hotel. Chicago...
...there anybody older than I in this house?" suddenly shrilled 82-year-old Deputy Karl Herold above the tumult, "I was born in 1848! Anybody older than I? Anybody?" "Nein!" rumbled the Reichstag with one mighty voice, and, as custom decrees, the oldest Deputy took the chair prior to election of a regular President, began quaveringly to call the roll...
...more and the rebel forces again gained headway. As a matter of fact they gained headway to such an extent that in all probability "shorts" will be worn by Dartmouth men every spring from now until the time when some wise fool comes to the front with another revolutionizing custom...
Last week in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, a strangely assorted crowd stood about a new bronze statue. In the group were famed financiers in custom-made clothes, old workmen whose trousers showed a bag at the knees through the newly acquired press, young mechanics with large browned hands. All of them were there to honor the late great George Westinghouse, inventor, industrialist. Many present had worked with him, had known him as "The Old Man," whose impetuous, unreasoning temper and whose wholehearted consideration were amazing contradictions. The statue, erected by Westinghouse employes and friends, memorialized the genius which, though lately overshadowed...