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...Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande" lately crowed a loud, defiant crow. Last week lawyers in Manhattan and Brownsville, Tex., made ready to dispute the pros and cons of his crowing...
Immediately, ayes and nays were heard throughout the land. Said Walter Eckersall, former great quarterback: "One of the worst things ever done to the game." Said Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Kansas University athletic director: "It is a good rule." The pros listed among their number Dr. Clarence Wiley Spears (Minnesota), Ossie Solem (Drake), Tad Jones (Yale), Cleo O'Donnell (Holy Cross), Ira Rodgers (West Virginia), Bob Zuppke (Illinois). The cons included Amos Alonzo Stagg (Chicago), Dick Hanley (Northwestern), Glenn Thistlethwaite (Wisconsin), Dr. Frank W. Cavanaugh (Fordham...
...citizens, contemplating Havana vacations, could pick between two 20,000-ton ships, each a trans-Atlantic veteran, each the favorite of many a tourist. The President Roosevelt was obviously cheaper. What were other pros and cons? Prospective travelers weighed them...
...Into Lake Superior fled a deer. At it Winnebijou flung stones. Stones missed deer, but up sprang some islands, which centuries later White Man named Apostle Islands. The President was said to have discussed, last week, with Mrs. Coolidge the pros and cons of visiting the scene of this Chippewa legend. ¶With newsmen, the President's only weighty discussion concerned the Kellogg multilateral treaty. While no longer permitting newsmen to speak of him as a mere "spokesman" for himself, the President still refuses to be quoted directly, thus making it easier for him to deny anything which newsmen...
There are pros and there are cons to this discussion and even the non-resident undergraduate can offer certain of his views. Boston has these in its favor: the Charles River, the State House (architecturally speaking), the Public Gardens in the spring, an excellent array of burlesque houses, beans, the intersection of Boylston and Tremont streets on a windy day, an interesting and odiferous market section, an Irish aristocracy which came over on the Mayflower, an English aristocracy which came over so long ago that it has forgotten the exact era, a charmingly decrepit business district, and good train...