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...have learned many things--first and foremost, that in order to assure the success of a track team it is necessary to develop not stars but a large body of runners, taking men who perhaps have never run before and, overcoming their initial discouragements, bring before them the motto of the Harvard track team--Progress." Following Mr. Bingham, C. W. Martin, his successor as head track coach, made a speech in which he stated his intentions of carrying out his predecessor's policy and of concentrating on team work rather than on individual brilliance...
...monster birthday cake and kissed him. Letters of congratulation showered upon him from the clergy, from financiers, from almost all State governors, from the Cabinet, from President Coolidge, who remarked how well beloved is Nathan Straus and said: "Such a reward is beyond price." Mr. Straus repeated his motto: "Give while you live...
...stop. There won't be any more booze. You won't be able to find a crap game even, let alone a roulette wheel or a faro game. I guess Mike Hughes* won't need his 3,000 extra cops, after all. "Public service is my motto. Ninety-nine percent of the people in Chicago drink and gamble. I've tried to serve them decent liquor and square games. But I'm not appreciated. It's no use. "I've got some property in St. Petersburg I want to sell...
...Might any or all of these slogans help the Democrats unhorse the Republicans in 1928? The slogan committee of the Woman's National Democratic Club (Washington, D. C.), hoped so. They were announced last week as the best of 800 slogans the committee obtained in its nationwide slogan-motto-jingle-limerick-rhyme con-contest (TIME, Sept. 26). The committee paid $100, $50 and $25 for the above prizewinners, as promised. The Mrs. Hubbard who won first prize is First Vice-President of the Woman's National Democratic Club. Two of the other slogans submitted were issued for publication...
...future age old tales will be told how Professor Kittredge personally horsewhipped every man who dared to have a cold, and how, on the President's daily walks, the scuffings of the Presidential dog marked the spot where the next College building was to rise. But no Harvard's motto will still be "Veritas...