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...that Mr. Jim Tully has out-lined the finer points of vagrancy and Mr. Vachel Lindsay is reviving the custom of wandering poets, the National Association of Hoboes, meeting in convention at Omaha, has come to the realization that its members are gradually being admitted into the fellowship of respectable citizens. In order to separate the sheep from the goats it announces a difference between the hobo and the lowly bum, defining the former as "merely a migratory worker who travels to participate in construction work and to help with the harvests": a bum, on the other hand...
Yale, Harvard and Princeton are bound together not so much by tradition or custom as by their common opportunity to aid the development of education. At times strident voices of a thoughtless minority cause commotion, but if the Big Three are bound by a mutuality of aim and a dedication to American education, their bonds of friendship will be unbreakable and abiding
...European problem does not lie in a group of men sitting around a table and figuring out what somebody owes; it lies in the introduction of 2,000,000 Fords and 2,000,000 telephones to cut down the cost of transportation, break down the barriers of language, religion, custom and prejudice. ... I think the most impressive fact in the last year's experience in business is that the industry shipped over 700,000 automobiles to foreign countries." One man was exceedingly happy at the convention. He was Thomas Edward Wilson, who has worked hard on the Institute...
...mechanical age, perhaps realizing that the means of transportation and the aid to labor which was the custom of all previous centuries should not be allowed to fade entirely from the mind of man, has seen fit to erect a lasting memorial to the horse. A section of the American Museum of Natural History is to be set aside for relics of the horse age; skeletons, plaster casts, paintings--all recalling the day when the horse was the rule, not the exception are to be stored therein. If the children of tomorrow are to be deprived of the sight...
...reason that the cafeteria in the Hall was given up was because the students objected to the stereotyped diet, went elsewhere for their meals, and the proposition was no longer a paying one for the University. It is always difficult to provide a varied diet for a regular daily custom. The choice of meats, for example, is not as large as it once was; we have no game to put on the table, and the range of other meats is very small. The perennial problem of the housewife is to plan the next day's meal to be such that...