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...petition asking for a recount of the vote for Orator in the Senior Class elections was handed in to the Senior Nominating Committee last night...
Former Governor Thomas Edward Campbell of Arizona. (He had the exceptional experience of serving as a state Governor for almost a year without being elected. He was apparently elected Governor in 1916 and served in office from January to late in December, when a recount showed that his opponent had a plurality of 43 votes. He was really elected, however, in 1918 and again...
...declaring that O'Brien's pictures of South Sea glamour are mere imaginative fiction, and while Cruises of the Kawa are making them, seem ridiculous, stories like this are unconsciously being enacted to prove the case for romance. Stevenson and Richard Harding Davis had nothing more improbable to recount, and their best efforts failed to give the touch of credibility which is carried in a newspaper paragraph like this. As long as there are still truths stranger than fiction, there is hope for the survival of the "dime novel" and the "movie" adventure films which have been suffering a fade...
...dream. We cultivate business on the golf course, solicit orders on furious motor drives on State highways, and go through violent motions in the unspeakable gymnasium because we don't know how to sit. . . . Unless you can brag about your score at this or that, unless you can recount your hunting tales and speeding yarns, you talk in strange languages to your luncheon campanions. We are a nation of sweating amateurs...
...only was a recount made last night but an investigation of the counting on Wednesday night was made by the CRIMSON to determine what had caused the error...