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...Thomas of Madison, Wis., did not endear himself to little boys when he said: "The traditional school year with a summer vacation of ten weeks or more is . . . a manifest absurdity in the city...
...certain that in the beginning quoits developed out of horseshoe pitching. Followers of both games argue the question at great length. Horseshoe pitchers point out that, next to ringing church bells, throwing horseshoes was the sin which most tempted the tinker, John Bunyon, before God was made manifest to him. Now there are pitching courts in the public parks of most big cities. Quiet, sunburned old men throw horseshoes in the yards of Florida hotels. They are the ones who like the game best, but the young men are the champions. The headquarters of the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association...
...Postmaster General Harry S. New, quick to approve the action of Postmaster Kiely, said: "It is a manifest absurdity to permit political agitators and advocates of various governmental policies to utilize the United States mails to propagandize the public. . . ." The All-American Anti-Imperialist League replied by printing several thousand new stickers bearing the same legend plus a cartoon of a huge boot, with...
...appearance this week of the University Register is a February fulfillment of a need that was felt before the advent of November hours. The lack of any such directory to the University was unpleasantly manifest last year, a deficiency remedied by Student Council provision...
...even from fertile land, caused by traditional, inefficient methods of cultivation; 3) backward financial and industrial conditions, just now accentuated by the widespread collapse of credit due to the Civil War; 4) the constitutional lack of a spirit of resolute co-operation among Chinese (this lack being constantly made manifest by their failure to unite in effective numbers for any purpose what soever beyond the horizon of a single family or village...