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...First Hoosier: "Oh. well, there isn't much difference between an $18,000 job in Manila and a $15,000 job in the Cabinet...
...representatives-Purdue and Indiana University. Last autumn when the Conference season started, it looked as if these two and five others-Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Ohio State -were all about evenly matched. By last week, when the season drew to a close, it was once more manifest that "Hoosier" basketballers play their best for "Hoosier" schools. Indiana finished after winning eleven games, losing one. The only other teams that had a chance of getting through with less than five defeats were Purdue, which needed only a victory over Michigan to tie Indiana's record, and Michigan, which...
...readers Letters to Harriet will bring many a whiff from the plushy past. Hoosier-born (1869), William Vaughn Moody worked his way through Harvard, went on into graduate pastures, then started the climb to Parnassus by the academic path. It was while he was teaching English at the University of Chicago that he met "Harriet," who kept alive the torch of culture by all-night literary conversaziones around a lakeshore bonfire. When his drudged-out textbook's success set him free to travel and write for himself, Moody and Harriet kept their friendship going by mail. His letters were...
...Spanish War gave a Hoosier named John Henry Hoeppel such a taste for army life that he stayed on in the service as an enlisted man for nearly 20 years. Discharged with a commission after the World...
...Practically all Indiana judgeships are elective jobs. Playing politics from the bench is a highly-developed Hoosier art. Until recently no law-school degree has been necessary for admission to the bar, and even to become a Supreme Court Justice in Indiana one needed only two affidavits of good character and a requisite number of votes...