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...squad will be able to muster its full strength for this week's tilt with the Princeton Tiger, since not a man received a serious injury in the Tufts encounter. Guarnaccia and Saltonstall, both of whom starred in the long marches down the field, were lame and bruised, but will be in perfect condition by next Saturday. Bell, Kilgour, and K. D. Robinson, the three players who were unable to take part in last Saturday's game, will be fit and ready before the end of the week...
...flags to wave, but their party gives them a "plat- form" ingeniously constructed of sagging, soft "planks." For at least a month the Standard Bearers are supposed to do a graceful jig on these planks. Then comes election day, and the panting dancers are either governors and senators, or lame ducks...
...Secretary: Being the Letters of Mame to Mom. Stenographer Mame reports the antics of -"the greatest Man in the whole wide world" astride an electric "camelephant" (exercise machine) and how she tells him what to tell newsgatherers to tell the people to think. Author Sinclair's announcement betrayed lame borrowings from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, moronese novelette by Author Anita Loos...
...chewing gum on shipboard than to sell chewing tobacco, which has always been sold. They argued that a piece of chicle, delicately flavored and injected into the mouth of a gob (except when in ranks) not only was harmless, but promoted efficiency and "good morals." It was Senator McKinley, lame duck from Illinois, who finally prevailed upon the higher officers of the Navy to believe these arguments. At least one of Senator McKinley's constituents (William Wrigley Jr. of Chicago) grinned broadly. He has always been in favor of good morals in the Navy...
...Meanwhile," concludes the Christian Century's correspondent, "the fundamentals convention, albeit walking a little lame, pursued its militant way and wound up in a blaze of defiant glory...