Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...backfield there is a wealth of material this department appearing especially strong on the defense. Slagle, who was selected by the late Walter Camp for his second All-American lineup last fall, appears to be the best of the lot. With the huddle system again in vogue, he is calling signals in place of Captain Stout. An accurate passer, a brilliant runner, a fine drop-kicker, and a good punter, he is a genuine quadruple threat man. Dignan, a kicker and line plunger, Caulkins, and Gilligan make up the rest of the backfield. Bridges, the diminutive Virginian from...
...Colonel Procter said that he had not been active in politics before, in a national campaign at least, but that he had had some experience, in fact, a lot of experience, in business, and was very familiar with the manner of reaching the people in the homes of the country, but that it took money to do it. He said that in these days it was his idea - to use a commercial expression - to 'sell' the candidate to the people just as if he were an unknown new proprietary article or useful appliance or invention...
...GOES VOYAGING-David Binney Putnam-Putnam ($1.50). Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were "made-up" boys. David Putnam is a real one, aged 12, and besides he went thousands of miles on the ocean (with Deep-Sea-Explorer William Beebe, to Panama and the Galapagos Island) and had a lot of modern tackle and interested grown-ups to fish with and collect birds' eggs, turtles, lizards, bugs, beetles and even scorpions. He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses. He helped dig buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator. His mother...
...courage is the prime requisite of a football player, the hero in question may reasonably expect to see himself listed in most of the all-American selections this year. Serious personal injury would probably have been his lot in other institutions where students are more impulsive than at Columbia. Perhaps, even among Columbia's countless apathetic thousands, only a football player could attempt what this young man did without being cast from the top of Grant's tomb...
...certainly very encouraging to see Saunders back. What a lot...