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...railroading was seen in the southern district, and resulted not only from the Florida boom but the general opening-up of the southeastern states which is now going on. In the East, the roads did quite well with the exception of the anthracite carriers. Western roads, however, continued to lag behind, partly as a result of competition with the Panama Canal, partly from low freight rates...
Hockey answers the requirements of a major sport in every point, and failure to recognize it as such at Princeton means not only that we will lag behind the procession of other universities but that our representatives in that sport will be severely handicapped in intercollegiate competition. We feel that the sentiment of the University, if once aroused, is overwhelmingly in favor of granting it its proper place among the major sports. At the same time we realize that it takes just about an even ton of dynamite to stir the majority of the undergraduates and undergraduate organizations into action...
...Mogul. There is probably a wide public for the type of entertainment in which an Irish tenor sends the show out for recess every now and then and sings a couple of ballads. This one even takes time to tell a funny story when the plot begins to lag. Fiske O'Hara is his name. In this play, by De Witt Newing, he is not a poor Irish lad arriving in this country but a full blown business man. The notion of Elbert Gary suddenly holding up a conference of the Steel Corporation to sing about shamrocks is interesting...
...their capture except the young Mexican bride who refused to leave her husband, and two of the men made their escape on the same day. That left a balance of only 18 who made the journey into the mountain lair of these bandits. Miss Aldrich did not lag behind and eventually so far behind that she was enabled to escape. She was set at liberty by her captors before she had been in their hands 24 hours, together with the other women captives, as before stated. The only ones who lagged behind so far that they were enabled to escape...
...absurd and humiliating that American children of equal intelligence lag two years behind their more favored contemporaries in the better class of European schools...