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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion," said Senator Fess after what the press called his "scolding," "that the mere fact that the President does not say something more in face of the general public clamor, is proof enough that he intends to accept the nomination when it is offered to him. . . . It is the Coolidge way of doing things; it is the Coolidge psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fess Incident | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Muscular Anesthesia. In rowdy secret society initiations the novice, standing rigidly erect, arms at sides, is made to inhale very deeply and hold his breath. As his face grows red and his eyes bulge, great arms glide around his chest, like brewers' clamps over a beer keg. Just as the initiant feels like the inflated frog of Aesop's fairy tale, the great arms squeeze; the victim drops heavily, rendered unconscious by muscular anesthesia. This initiation "stunt," Professor Arno Benedict Luckhardt of the University of Chicago reminded the Academy, is dangerous to a person with a weak heart. The sudden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: National Academy | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...shifts in the Team A. line-up were the dominant feature of the University football work-out again yesterday afternoon. Every day this week has seen some change in the Crimson first string combination; and according to Coach Arnold Horween '20 the final decision as to what players will face Indiana at the opening whistle tomorrow may not be reached until after the squad has gone through its limbering up exercises just before game time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARK, TRIPP, AND MASON WORK IN TEAM A BERTHS | 10/28/1927 | See Source »

...expounded in English 2, and with no suggestion of satanic depths to his character, except perhaps at the end where he maintained an admirably unrepentant and sinister smile. To him the Othello of Louis Leon Hall was an excellent foil. Mr. Hall is portly, with a cheerful rotund face, which, well darkened, brought out the whites of his rolling eyes, and gave him the jolly aspect of a Moor who has made up many a Pullman berth in his time. It was perhaps to attain more dignity that he thundered and declaimed his lines, with sweeping gestures...

Author: By A. T. R. j., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

...English teams has won for them a majority of decisions in the past, and the team this year is chosen from the students of all the English Universities, instead of from the undergraduates of one university. In the face of this opposition the University team has been working especially hard to polish off its style in prepartaion for the forensic battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE DEBATERS CHOSEN TO FACE ENGLISH RIVALS | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

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