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...dismal day. Even the sun balks at smiling on this puppets' college with its box dormitories set up about its crazy-quilt campus, and its infant incubators down by the river. There is symbolism in those twin chimneys of the capitalist power plant. Some day they will fall through the feeding troughs of Smith Halls as through egg-powder, and with them this whole idea-starved society will come crashing to the ground...
...present line-up of the first team is as follows: l.e., Cates; l.t., Bloomer; l.g., Turner; c., Roraback; r.g., Smith; r.t., Hogan; r.e., Hare; q.b., Rockwell; l.h., Quilt; r.h., Roome; f.b., White...
...policy in the conduct of athletics or anything else. One man builds his plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts, so to say, and, to mix metaphors, the result is a very patchwork of policy - likest a crazy-quilt, Queen Anne's cottage, than any other product of the same human mind. Hence, too, the impossibility of the strictest economy. The bucket changes hands so often and so rapidly, and each carries it so differently from anybody else, that some water must be spilt e'er it reach...