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Modern Freshman live in luxurious dormitories Chrysler to classes perhaps and at the slightest provocation proffer their opinions on bottled goods and other important questions of the day. Their self assertion is quite painful and appalling to the upper classmen. Whether he gets away with it or not a Freshman now actually dares to step blithely up to cut in on a senior who is dancing with somebody's somebody. This of course will never do but it is done...
...interest and the buzzing and the clamor some Eastern lyceum bureau offered Mr. Burbank $120,000 for a year's lecturing about his agnostic [sic] views on religion. He almost snarled at the insulting proffer, "I am not in this for the money...
...Universities of Yale and of Harvard, have furnished grist for many a generality. Harvard men, whose impression of Yale may have been limited to a distorted glimpse of Harkness Tower as beheld from a motor car on the way to the Yale Bowl, are usually quite ready to proffer their opinions of Yale's scholastic, athletic and social systems; Yale men not infrequently subject the "red bellies" of Harvard to a voluble and humorous dissection. Last week a Yale man and a Harvard man published their views of their respective colleges in an article in the Harvard Crimson (undergraduate...
...Dempsey-Gibbons fight at Shelby, Mont., caved in suddenly last week and for a time experts declared that it was all over but the " I told you so's." Montana business men, however, were quick to proffer their bank accounts and Jack Dempsey received his second $100,000 installment. Shelby breathed again...
Reserving my own convictions and party affiliations in regard to complete autonomy. I feel it only fair to place before you the answer to your question which those favoring independence would proffer. To quote Senior Quezon's declaration before Congress in reply to the frequent query of "Wry should not the Filipino people be content with American rule?" "I will answer", he said, "in the language of that great apostle of human freedom, Daniel Webster. 'No matter how easy may be the yoke imposed by a foreign power, if it is not imposed by the voice of his own nation...