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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through Kansas City, early in the week, passed a more cheerful figure than either the Beaver Man or the Modern Cincinnatus. This one, swart, short, mustachioed, had played a different game from theirs, a waiting game. Redskin ancestors on his grandmother's side had doubtless played the same game often. Out hunting with other braves, a good plan had been to let the others stalk, and perhaps frighten, the deer, which then would come along the runway where an artful man sat ready. The Indian-blooded Senator from Kansas had seen the waiting game work well on race tracks...
Below are the names of a number of the distinguished personages so honored at the earlier commencements of 1928. It is not necessarily implied that either the institutions or the individuals listed are the "most distinguished...
...University discussed with that sure freedom that is found at the dinner of the alumnus who is ten years out from Sever Quadrangle. Improvement, planful aspiration, avowed democratic principle--all these have a way ofturning will-o'-the wisp when the builders of the report, who are either too safely ensconced in the best clubs to care about action, or are alumni like the Princeton investigator, decide quite humanly to let it go at that. Changes in any club system seem to be a matter of maturaration within the clubs themselves, rather than any yet discovered surgery...
Gilbert Smith's teacher was either unwilling or unable to reply. So Gilbert asked his parents. Then he asked the County Judge. Finally, he wrote to the Department of Justice in Washington...
...British Ambassador would go home, either peaceably or deported by the U. S. after his Government had shorn him of diplomatic rank. Home, he would face British Justice, famed for speed...