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...rising before the Yardlings like a cloud--a past crammed with visions of irresponsible Presidents who have made their roommates Jubilee chairmen and then kidded them playfully for running $1000 in the red. The Freshmen shiver when they hear of a former ice-cream cater, or a milk-drinker, who rose to triumph on his illgotten publicity. It's all very unfortunate, when an election should be such a fine thing, a stimulant to class interest, even a lesson in citizenship. Yes, the Freshmen are right, the old system must...
...light vices, of the alley Negroes (he calls them coons, Aframericans, blackamoors), of policemen, of livery stables, of trips to Washington with his father, he tells a great deal, most of it as solid as it is entertaining. He writes a beautiful chapter on his father as a businessman, drinker and practical joker, makes him, quietly, a great comic character. Chief cause of the comedy: he "was probably the most incompetent man with his hands ever seen on earth...
Concerned with the "average" drinker rather than dipsomaniacs (whose drinking is effect rather than cause), Authors Smith & Helwig, no apologists for drunks, know how to say when. They warn, for example, against alcohol for colds and snake bites, point out that many a death technically attributed to accidents, suicide, homicide, bullets and knives should properly be classed as due to booze. They could, but do not, point out that the world's outstanding teetotalers today are Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini...
...real possibilities of this material were brought to light in a measure not so long ago when Hank Drinker, erstwhile cub stroke, came through in the heavy sculling singles to win an all college event. Drinker's sculling experience was limited but natural ability seemed to carry him through. However, Drinker is not the only hopeful that remains out of the limelight at Nassau...
...need for money, the political favoritism that blocked his promotion, her father's fear of him, her sophisticated New Orleans aunt's frank advances toward him. As sardonic a figure as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but far more plausible, Colonel Carter became a drinker without believing he drank, sold government supplies without believing he was dishonest, and-before Lillie's baby was born-drifted into a love affair with Lillie's young aunt without losing his belief that he was an honorable Virginia gentleman. Meanwhile, he was a hero-whipping his troops into...