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Since the fig leaf went out of style, the problem of proper dress for state occasions has bothered each succeeding generation. When Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was hastily summoned to the dictatorship of Rome in 458 B. C., he is reputed to have left his oxen hitched to the plow, but history does not say whether he changed to a fresh toga before proceeding to the Capitol. Twenty-two odd centuries later, Mrs. Jackson was intensely annoyed at some of the President's convivial adherents, who, coming in their native gard to congratulate him at his inauguration, stood in muddy boots...
...sixty-five. Every morning he would get up at five o'clock to write his accustomed 2500 words before breakfast, for if he let a day go by without at least 5000 he considered that he was shirking his duty. His Pegasus was something in the nature of a plow-horse, who finally arrived at the goal of literary success by plugging away, until hard work made up for lack of speed...
...Hoosier eleven will line up on the first kick-off with a group of forwards who average more than 185 pounds from end to end. This means that the University must plow through a defence slightly heavier than that of Holy Cross last Saturday and just as agile. The Indiana linesmen are ruggedly built, are all experienced players, and notedly aggressive on both the attack and defence. They will also have a slight advantage over the University line in that they have played together in two games already this season with practically no shifts. On the other hand, beyond...
...some real football, especially in the third quarter, when the Crimson took the ball from Harvard's 18-yard line and carried it straight down the field across the Penn. State goal line. It was an 82-yard march made by short but sure advances, a flash of that plow-like attack that has been used so gloriously by past Harvard teams...
...unique page to English literature. Negro faithfulness cannot be overrated. In the old days the southerners entrusted the protection of their wives, mothers, sweethearts and daughters to negroes. Today the newspapers are filled with accounts of their atrocious crimes. This is the direct result of taking them from the plow and setting them at the spelling book. Mr. Booker Washington's level-headed work in coaxing them back to manual labor is praiseworthy in the extreme. Granting the negro his freedom instantaneously was a mistake, but above all the mistake of granting them the right to vote is to blame...