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...student editor for having written an article "reflecting upon the traditions of the school which they were sworn to uphold." Accoutered in black hoods, they entered the editor's room at midnight, carried him off three miles into the country in his pajamas, with the thermometer standing at seventeen below, gave him ten lashes with a three quarters inch rope, and let him walk home. For ten days, the University officials investigated the case, and then expelled the fourteen from college. Yesterday, Governor Murray chose to reinstate them...
After having predicted that the Russian Five Year Plan would take fifty years to explain and that New York would have to be reforested seventeen times to furnish enough pulp to make straw ballots, this election dope is child's play. I'll go on record right now as prophesying a victory for the silver tongued bond salesman from Hyde Park by 430 electoral votes. Because the Great Engineer denied torturing Chinese coolies, he will lose California and South Boston...
...plodded up and down the sidelines at the field on the banks of the Hudson, faithfully watching a team victoriously beat back the attacks of the Army. Since that muddy October afternoon, when Percy Haughton carried his first football for Harvard, grey and golden jerseys have pounded on Crimson seventeen times. Baronchos have given way to limousines, leg-o'mutton sleeves are replaced by seal-skin capes, the rivalry continues...
...other years. Sports psychology from the standpoint of tickets is peculiar. There is feverish excitement and mad ticket hunting only when tickets are scarce. The Holy Cross game was an example of that last year. Three days in advance of the game 40,000 tickets had been sold. Seventeen thousand tickets were purchased between the Wednesday and Friday noons preceding the game. Notwithstanding the fact that announcement was made then that the game was sold out, there were ten thousand persons gathered at Soldiers Field at game time, trying to purchase tickets...
...Seventeen years have passed since Enrico Caruso walked into the Victor Talking Machine plant in Camden, N. J., called out a greeting to everyone he met, shed coat, waistcoat, collar, tie, shut his eyes and became for a few moments the brokenhearted clown in Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba, the clown's song which Caruso sang that day, helped more than any other to put his record royalties over the million dollar mark. Victor says that no other voice has recorded so brilliantly, so exactly as Caruso's. But the mechanics of record making have undergone many a change...