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...what he is because he is an oil man?essentially, specifically, an oil man. If this fact suggests a grimy individual in a pair of begritted overalls, with smudged nose and lamentable fingernails, it is nevertheless a fact, for Mr. Teagle not infrequently looks like this. He would rather poke around for oil, he said, than stay in his office and handle papers. The Directors respected his wish...
...defense the Elis will have a formidable pair in Captain Potts, and Cole. In the forward line the Blue will have the brilliant Ferguson, whose poke-check played an important part in stopping the Crimson. Cutter and Cottle, substitute wings last year who are at present filling halfback positions on the Yale eleven, and Frey, reserve center...
...penchant for pushing about in the mud, but people do not gather by the fifty thousand to see contests among these animals, eleven on a side. The 69,000 rain-drenched individuals who saw Illinois wallow against Chicago might as well have been watching such a game of porcine poke-belly. Britton's toe and a brace of fumbles gave the mud-match to Illinois...
...unusual for college undergraduates to poke extravagant fun at the faculty in college publications. But the "Confidential Guide to the Curriculum" in yesterday's Harvard CRIMSON is not a joke. True, there are rather snappy lines in it here and there, but the series of studies are intensively in earnest. The editors of the CRIMSON have, between them, taken most of the courses offered in the catalogue. All of these young men have been asked repeatedly by the upperclassmen for the "low down" on this or that course. Can the teachers teach? Does the student gain a fair intellectual return...
...chubby little boy named Wood used to persuade the sextons of vast, dim London churches to let him climb up on the organ bench and poke his fingers into the triple-tiered keyboard. Later he studied at the Royal Academy, tried to be a composer, but it was not until he was engaged to conduct a series of Promenade Concerts in the new Queen's Hall in 1895 that his name began to command space in the newspapers. It was then considered impossible to play good music for audiences at Promenade Concerts; they wanted to hear Goodbye, Dolly...