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...dickens. . ." After two scorching days & nights, the weather turned cool and cloudy. They began to enjoy themselves. Near Juba the pilot banged a bell thrice. Game! Fourteen passengers whooped with excitement, flattened their noses against the windows as the ship's nose went down. They saw a herd of about 200 elephants of assorted sizes; then another, then a third. "Can you imagine our feelings? And funny none of us thought how grand a target they made. They looked so peaceful and contented. . . ." The Martin Johnsons were waiting at Kisumu (on Lake Victoria) with a big Sikorsky, flew them...
...above move is taken, a larger number of Freshmen than usual will be disappointed in regard to first choices, since it is an unfortunate fact that most of the first-year men are making a herd rush for the larger and newer Houses. It is to be hoped that all those men who fail to obtain the desired House will cooperate as much as possible in the present difficult situation by not complaining. The authorities will in fact, be wise if they do the greater part of the adjusting with those groups of friends entering together, since...
...possessed the same physical advantages. Unfortunately neither of these conditions was fulfilled, with the result that the freshmen have rushed like sheep other toward the Houses which first got under way or toward those most attractive physically. Yet the majority of these Freshmen are only acting with the herd instinct; they have no real reason for preferring a particular House other than the fact that everybody else seems to be going there. The outcome of this stampeding has been deplorable; the desired cross sections are in certain cases either non-existent or overbalanced at one end, the demarcations...
Born. To the U. S. Naval Academy's football mascot goat, Old Bill; and a nameless nanny of the Academy's herd: two kids; in Annapolis...
Most indignant comment came from England, where all U. S. golf innovations are disgusting to golfers who abide by the regulations of the staid St. Andrews club. Said Sandy Herd: "Farcical!" Charles Whitcombe: "Absurd!" James Braid: "The walls would crumble!" Harry Vardon: "The very idea makes me angry...