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Rhodes Scholars for the year 1928-29 will be elected on December 10, 1927, it was announced yesterday by Professor W. C. Greene, Secretary of the Committee of Selection of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The qualities considered in an applicant are manhood, force of character, leadership, literary and scholastic ability and attainments; and physical vigor as shown by interest in outdoor sports...
...against his fair name. He stands forth as a rugged, typical American. We all on our side and on both sides wish him well. He presides over an American home. About his hearthstone is gathered rugged graceful refined, intellectual womanhood and innocent and guileless childhood, lofty integrity and robust manhood." The entire House rose in prolonged and mighty applause...
...permission. But that was before the Misses Macfadden grew up and before their father had found what pictures money can buy honestly. Kind-hearted President Taft once had to come to Mr. Macfadden's aid to spare him two years of hard labor for an article on "Growing to Manhood." But since then the latitude permitted "educational" matter has increased and Mr. Macfadden has doubtless forgotten the $2,000 fine he paid in the dismal dawn of this porno-glorious century...
Principal H. H. Cully of Glenville High School, Cleveland, arose to address his graduating class and their parents. Great was the latters' dismay when, as they awaited breathless to hear their children lauded as Splendid Examples of Young American Womanhood & Manhood, Principal Cully harshly, sarcastically denounced the entire class as a "scholastic failure," more than hinting that none deserved diplomas. Irate, one C. L. Simpson, citizen, wrote to a local newspaper that for at least twelve years Principal Cully (21% years at his post) had "handed" each Glenville graduating class, instead of a bouquet a "generous dose of satirical...
...keep its word, having once placed an estimate on their clients' profits. The public will be deprived of some illuminating bits of finance by the agreement of both sides not to discuss the earnings of the Ford Motor Co. from its humble birth in 1903 until its prodigious manhood...