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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Religionist Potter, onetime Bible expert for the defense in the famed Evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn. (1925), resigned a year ago from the Universalist Church. He has been a Baptist, a Unitarian. Short, clean-shaven, getting bald, fond of colored neckties, he has a voice which carries well...
...Something must be done to check the ever increasing indecency of women's dress," wrote Prefect Lops, and went on to declare that, although both Pope Pius XI and Queen Helena of Italy have condemned short skirts and bare arms, results have been meager if not lacking. "However, who can doubt," concluded fulsome Prefect Lops, "that an order from our beloved Duce would be obeyed UNHESITATINGLY by every woman in Italy...
...friends on base. In the fourth inning the Athletics scored three times more and Manager McCarthy of Chicago took out Malone, one of his best pitchers. With one out, the bases filled, and the infield playing close so as to be able to field a grounder home, Cub Short-stop English boneheaded to second. Pitcher Earnshaw of Philadelphia tired but his successor, muscular Robert Moses Grove, proved that a good left-handed pitcher can do better than tradition says against a team of right-handed hitters. Athletics 9, Cubs...
Then came the Spanish American War in 1898. Classes were graduated early; that of 1898 two months ahead of schedule; 1899 nearly four months early. The war was short but vigorous, and the ultimate results shed more glory on the name of West Point. Elihu Root, then Secretary of War, in 1899 reported upon the Military Academy:--"I believe that the great services it has rendered the country were never more conspicuous than it has been during the past two years. The faithful and efficient services of its graduates since the declaration of war with Spain have more than repaid...
...that the Yard will presently have its autumn bronze and gold mixed with the gray of uniforms during the few minutes that mark the yearly visit of the West Pointers, he realizes what a tradition the Army game has acquired in the short time it has become again a feature of the Harvard football season. The Vagabond for one has come to look forward to it as one of the few colorful interludes in the college year, and once it has come and gone the noises and the smells that afflict a university around which a crowded city has grown...