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...civic or otherwise, are the badge of the hay-stacks: that it is big enough and powerful enough and well heeled enough and enough of a wise guy to go to the devil more times than anybody else and still survive to take pride in the achievement. The slick ness and unctuousness of Mayor Hylan, one may presume, appeal to New York as so cordially representative of its own shrewdness and unmorality as to make their exaltation through him a fitting rebuke to more common sense and the weakness for decency...
Great is the nation which produces a Babe Ruth, and takes both pride and joy in the manifestations of his prow ness. The superman in baseball has arrived, and, thanks to the scientists, we know why he is a superman. May, we not hope that succeeding generations of Americans, profiting by a knowledge of the reasons for the success of our athletes, will develop to the full limit their eyes, their ears, their nerves and their muscles, and enter the game of life trained to knock out "home runs" in their chosen callings? The superman, whether in baseball, statemanship...
...problems, the sanction of the Elevated, etc., are all factors any one of which might make the undertaking impossible. However, we never know what a though is worth until it is criticised. So here is this one--do with it as you will. Yours for the big II. VAN NESS H. BATES...
Princeton's "flying interferer" fizzled comparison with its expected effective ness. A flying interferer can dash in fore the ball is put into play and Indians an unsuspecting tackle whose only thought is the play coming to meet him. By playing first the flying interferer...
...timeservers, trimmers and pacifists believed. They left the American Legion out of consideration, which was a very stupid thing to do in these days so soon after the war. The men of the Legion are going to take off their coats and work for the discarded remedy for unprepared-ness...