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Will it, like so many other industries, develop its vested interests and its propaganda? Will junk barons buy up newspapers to preach the cause of international peace? Will second-hand dynamo lobbies try to put over disarmament jokers on Parliaments and Congresses? Will venal correspondents and news agencies flood the press of the world with fakes about peace banquets in Tokio, international meetings in London, interracial resolutions of friendship in Rome, all provocative of unity among the nations and designed to build up the scraping industry? More power to them! -New York Evening Post...
...close of every college year there are several hundred students leaving Cambridge, who are forced to sell their furniture to second-hand dealers for as much as they can get; every fall at the opening of the term there are as many persons who must furnish rooms, and who for the most part go to these same dealers for the necessary furniture. For the dealers, this is an ideal situation; those leaving college are helpless and must accept what the dealers offer; the new arrivals are almost as helpless and must pay them whatever is asked. The trade between individual...
...theme is the racing of horses in a "fashionable hunting community near New York," featuring a third act filled with field glasses and people; the customary "They're off!!" and a tremendously exciting, though second-hand, steeplechase. That is the old theme and the new wrinkle is, of course, William Collier...
...faces and almost as many new ones. Timid Freshmen may be seen standing on the corner, with a fond mother by their side, staring blankly at a map of Cambridge and its surroundings, in vain attempt to orient themselves with Boylston Laboratory and the cleverly hidden Bursar's Office. Second-hand furniture stores are crowded with eager students purchasing desks and desk chairs, book shelves, and other conveniences for study, which alas, will only too soon be abandoned in favor of arm chairs and te Orpheum. Trucks and vans, in endless line, are rolling in with impedimenta, from golf bags...
...Haughton's problem was to beat a veteran cloven, familiar with Harvard's style of play, with an inexperienced eleven, having only a second-hand knowledge of Princeton's tactics. Tufts had beaten Tufts the following week, 3 to 0. On the strength of that record Princeton should have been the favorite. Man of man, the advantage in weight, experience and skill was undoubtedly with Princeton as it was in the contest a year ago. But the betting odds told another story. They favored Harvard--and logically. For past experience supported the assumption that the Harvard coaches would be able...