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...Neff to Baylor...
...never shot a gun, baited a hook, used tobacco in any form, or drunk anything stronger than Brazos water.''* Thus wrote the late President Samuel Palmer Brooks of Baylor University (Waco. Tex.) in his introduction to Battles for Peace, a collection of addresses by his good friend Pat Morris Neff. Many people might have doubted that such a Texan ever existed. Pat Neff not only existed but became Texas' Governor (1921-25). Well-known now is the story of how. hunting with a party which included the late William Jennings Bryan, he sat down to breakfast, found a wooden decoy...
Year ago Pat Neff, who had resumed his old law practice in Waco, hurried out to Baylor. His friend Sam Brooks lay dying of cancer, signing diplomas for his seniors almost to the hour of his death (TIME, May 18). Lawyer Neff watched by his side. Between the two was long and close friendship. They had roomed together for a time at Baylor, from which Pat Neff was graduated in 1894. Brooks became Baylor's president in 1902, Neff its board president in 1903. Both worked for peace, the one as organizer of Texas' first State Peace Congress...
...Neff, 60, is austere, eloquent, old-fashioned in his wing collar, string tie, Prince Albert. He is a Lion, Rotarian, Knight of Pythias, Mason. In 1913-15 he was president of a Conference for Education in Texas. In the Texas Outlook last week appeared his "Interpretation of Texas Week" (March 2-9) in which he said: "During that week nature is waking her sleeping children from their winter sleep, the invigorating breezes are blowing, the flowers are bursting into bloom, the trees are fixing to robe themselves in their glorious garments of green, and the peaceful valleys and hillsides...
Following the last performance of "Pudding on the Ritz" Saturday evening, the Hasty Pudding Club will give a "leap year" dance upstairs in the Club-house with the Harvard Gold Coast Orchestra providing the music, it was announced yesterday by R. S. Neff '33, undergraduate manager. A large number have already signified their intention of attending, so that the Club will secure permission to remain open after midnight. Tickets may still be obtained today and tomorrow at the Clubhouse...