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...Rollins' football schedule for next autumn is the University of Miami,* which is said to have other attractions for athletes than scholastic enlightenment. The University of Miami is less than a year old and consists of some 200 freshmen who attend classes in a hotel lent by a real estate development company. And yet, Miamians saw fit recently to launch a drive for $500,000 to build a football stadium. "Building this stadium," said one publicist, "is the best possible way to prove to the North that Miami is not down and out, but is still going strong." Skeptics urged...
...American conference U. S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover warned against international loans. Money should be lent abroad, said he, only if it will be used for production of goods, never if for the balancing of budgets or the maintenance of armies...
...sweating, steaming animals with bloodshot eyes found themselves wanting; fell, pitching heartbroken men onto tough shoulderblades. Only seven horses came to the last hurdle, Bovril III, 100-to-1 shot leading, closely pressed by Keep Cool and ten-year-old favorite Sprig. At this point Sprig lent ear to able Jockey Leader, executed a series of super-equine lunges, crossed the finish line a length ahead of Bovril III, two lengths ahead of Bright's Boy who had come up for third money...
...quarrelers, a circuit court judge named Clarence W. Dearth, appeared to have committed acts for which he deserved impeachment. That the other quarreler, Editor George R. Dale of the Muncie Post-Democrat (weekly) was a fugitive from Judge Dearth's justice, across the state line in Ohio, lent color to a case which, originating as a question of freedom of the press, had ramified, as the press had intended it should, into a question of curruption in high office. . For three years Editor Dale had attacked Judge Dearth as corrupt. His Honor, the Post-Democrat said, was conniving...
Most of the leading men in the graduating class made up part of the chorus. Daley, Haggerty, Coady, Miller, Sayles and other prominent bearers of the Crimson on many a past athletic field adding a lusty strain to the music Joe Duble also lent his mellifluous tenor to the football songs and old favorites, and for a while Bob Lampoon, noted piccolo player, supported the experiment with the weight of his musical genius...