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Almost every college has its campus character?a decrepit newsboy, perhaps, or a blowzy charlady, an eccentric professor. Cornell University's character is Romeyn (pronounced Roe-mine) Berry, graduate manager of athletics. Usually taken for granted, he made news at Ithaca last week by losing his most famed possession, a brown tweed hat with a grouse feather in the band. He put a notice in the Cornell Daily Sun: "I value the hat highly and will pay for its return a reward of $10?just twice the cost of the thing. ... No questions asked. ... If the finder...
Last week, 67, he was partially paralyzed, physically decrepit, mentally scintillating. An attendant wheeled him before the Philadelphia County Medical Society and handed him sheet by sheet the last paper he expected to read. Bluntly he offered his wisdom...
...Wagner, author of the dead bill, retorted: "The President has failed every man out pounding the pavement in search of work. . . . Before we ever got into water, the Administration was offered a sound horse with which to ride through the storm. It refused it. It insisted on riding the decrepit and balky creature which is the existing Federal employment service...
...Vagabond may live in Memorial Hall Tower, he may be philosophically inclined, he may seem a little flighty at times, prefering the things of the mind to those of the body, but he is still in good physical condition, thank you, and very, very far from senile and decrepit. All of which means that he is girding his loins for a possible struggle this evening...
...Robert Robinson, Manhattan chauffeur, was fined $5 for having run down and slightly injured Zaro Agha, decrepit Turk who is in the U. S. purporting to be 156 years...