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...meager, mysterious, ubiquitous and taciturn Colonel Edward M. House, about to leave on his annual trip to Europe, is credited with being commander-in-chief of a campaign to make John W. Davis the next Democratic Presidential nominee...
...active cases, ranging in age from 3 months to 40 years, which received three or four applications at intervals, 15 per cent were promptly cured, the spasms disappearing entirely, 70 per cent were relieved, and 15 per cent remained unchanged. It is too early and the data are too meager to make definite predictions of the success of X-ray treatment. The doctors are unable to give a rational explanation of the result, but do not believe it to be due to any direct germ-killing power of the rays...
Though M. A. B. has "bolstered" his array of adjectives with only two specific instances, his characterization of these eighty poems as "morbid", "disordered", "pleasant", "grotesque", "formless", "meager", "eccentric", "odd", "tricky", and "unhousebroken", is evidence of a sensitiveness hardly to be expected from out ingenuous pachyderm. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT '20 February...
Despite wretched support from the bleachers, the University baseball team ha, won seven of its eight preliminary games. Much of this meager backing has come from members of various athletic squads who watch the games after their own practice; and from other groups who have been conspicuous for their unfailing attendance. To these faithful few the inadequacy of the cheering has been only too apparent: the student body as a whole has shown utter indifference...
...makes too little of it. A plain and positive teaching on the essentials of the Christian faith is what men are loking for and need. Others feel that the ministry does not offer them a fair and solid living. It is true that its returns at this point are meager, but it is also true that a new conscience in the Church is preparing for the adequate support of its ministry...