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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abandon scouting. By scouting we mean the current practice of sending accredited agents to watch and report upon the system of play used by an opposing team. Just as signal stealing, once a common thing in football, was finally discredited by common agreement, in like manner scouting can be given the stamp of common disapproval...
...article in the Harvard Crimson (undergraduate daily). These two men were one and the same-a certain Lucius Beebe, who, after being ousted from Yale, entered the class of 1927 at Harvard. Since a mind divided against itself cannot cavil, and a broken allegiance is apt to mean a sound opinion, undergraduates and graduates of both colleges found Student Beebe's views interesting. Said...
...many people who have long admired the sensational rise of Mr. Jones were more interested in knowing why, when a new Chairman was being chosen, the President of the Company had been so conspicuously passed over. The Directors' official announcement contained only a curt explanation that might mean anything: "Walter C. Teagle prefers to remain President, and is the Chief Executive officer of the company...
...theme is its title: Possession. Ellen Tolliver would not let herself be possessed by the dirty, mean little town where her father, a brokendown politician, and her mother, a purposeful woman, had brought her into the world. She would not let herself be possessed by the adoring little husband who worshiped her while she was meeting the people she wanted to meet, those who lived on a larger scale. It was hard on the people who wanted to possess her and could not. She pitied them but that was all. Her mother she left behind. Her husband pined...
Although local boosters quite naturally take this news to mean that Hagerstown is at last coming to long-merited recognition as a centre of culture and the arts, there is still another reason behind the great pianist's visit. Hagerstown is near Washington, D.C.; and people who want to hear Paderewski can easily get over by bus or motor. In fact, if they expect to hear him this winter, this is just what they will have to do, for Paderewski will not play in Washington...