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Other Colleges. Among the 100 colleges and universities, with students totaling 36,000, to which were submitted these nine questions, Dartmouth stood forth as the least orthodox. In the grand total for the quiz, 87% of all answers were found to be "Yes." Such colleges as Providence, Pacific Union, Converse, Bridgewater, Carthage, Millsaps, Woffard, Shorter, Wheaton voted higher than 97% orthodox. But, such universities as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Brown, Chicago, Illinois, California, Stanford were not questioned by the International Advertising Association. Of the women's colleges, Wellesley was least orthodox with a vote of 75% affirmative...
Hoax. During the early part of last week, the Detroit courtroom buzzed with rumors that Mr. Ford would soon appear, although the judge and the lawyers knew that he was lying in a hospital with painful injuries and that he would not testify for at least two weeks (see p. 34). Suddenly, a U. S. deputy marshal escorted a man who he thought was Mr. Ford to a front row seat, while photographers set off flashlight powders. The man laughed, admitted that he was James G. Goodrich, treasurer of Lockmoor village, double of Mr. Ford. The U. S. deputy marshal...
...water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves they had been dashing themselves against the coast of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed. . . . One such wave (and not the least) I raised...
...Freshmen have been scrimmaging regularly and they plan to elect their captain soon after the spring vacation. As yet they have only one game on their schedule, that with Yale, but Manager A. F. Hanna '27 is hoping to add at least two more contests...
...move is by no means novel, having been successfully taken at the games held in 1912, and it cannot be denied that it has in its favor some very attractive features, at least from the point of view of those whose unfortunate duty it will be to police the sturdy participants. Sequestered in the harbor of Amsterdam during the evenings of their stay in the Low Countries, the brawn especially selected by the United States to keep it at the pinnacle of the world's athletics will not be in any great danger of deteriorating. The few weeks spent...