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...trip West to see the game. But to the Harvard graduate of the Middle West it will offer the rare opportunity of seeing his team in action, and for the undergraduate body of Harvard as a whole it is likely to furnish a justification in the eyes of mid-Western critics who are wont to scoff at Harvard's athletic degeneracy and lack of manly qualities...
...Mid-Western college supporters, especially the Big Ten, seem to be "on the par" as far as Eastern papers are concerned merely because the Big Ten graduates in the East are planning to get-together and cheer Purdue when the Crimson of Harvard gets into action on the same field as the Old Gold and Black of "that small college located somewhere in Indiana...
...latest answer to the time honored query, "What's in a name?" comes from the Middle West and informs us that as much as $100,000 dollars a year can be drawn from nothing more than a happy combination of letters. "Red" Grange, former sensation of mid-Western gridirons and the despair of ambitious backfield men, has found an unrivalled formula for living in opulence with an expenditure of nothing, in the way of effort, a year. Tired of supplying neighboring ice boxes with their heavy fuel, weary of dashing up and down mud covered gridirons, even, it seems, fatigued...
Lowden. Some 20,000 graduates of western and mid-western colleges received a letter from the Lowden-for-President Association of New York, Inc. The letter maintained that unless Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, is nominated, western and mid-western states will go Democratic in 1928. Mr. Lowden is a graduate of Iowa State University and of the Union College of Law, Chicago; holds honorary degrees from Knox College, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the University of Colorado...
Beneath a benevolent sun, 2,796 mid-western running-jumping-hurling youths held a relay carnival at the Drake Stadium, Des Moines, Iowa, last week. On the average, their performances were better than those at the Penn Carnival. Iowa State captured the medley and the two-mile relays, and the University of Iowa won the 440-yard and the one-mile relays. No decathlon was attempted...