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...preparation for this year's meeting, invitations have been sent out to 45 colleges, accompanied by questionnaires, with the purpose of obtaining information about the problems of each university. In this way, the executive committee hopes to narrow down the matters for discussion to the smallest possible limit, since the conference will be too short to consider unnecessary details...
...word "drive" usually has a connotation that makes most people shrink into the smallest possible corner at its mention. But the drive for books by the American Merchant Marine Library Association is one that neither calls for disappearance nor, on being caught, the donation of "as much as you think you can afford, for this most worthy cause" The Association asks for books,--old, new, good, bad, or high-brow. Anything seems to please them so long as it has a cover and a printed interior...
...speech in Boston Secretary of Labor Davis declared: "President Harding is probably the poorest advertiser in the United States today. The smallest corner grocer in Boston could undoubtedly give him a big handicap and then beat him at the game of getting himself sold to the public. This is not the time of our old and respected friend, Theodore Roosevelt, who had the faculty of letting folks know what he was doing and how fast he was doing...
...weight 155-stroke of the Oxford crew, was the hero of the four-mile drama on the Thames. Mellen sat in his first shell at Middlesex School and received his earliest training under Dr. R. Heber Howe, recently resigned as director of rowing at Harvard. He was the smallest man in either boat and was rowing his first intervarsity race. Stroking with judgment and rhythm, he held his crew to a safe lead after the first quarter mile and helped win the first victory for Oxford since 1913 by two lengths of open water. Keith Kane, former Harvard football captain...
...than 39 per cent of the whole student body of the University comes from this state. New York stands second among the states, with 794 students: Pennsylvania is third with 285: Ohio is fourth, with 252: and Illinois. New Jersey, California, Maine, and Connection follow in that order. The smallest state groups are those from Nevada and New Mexico: each of these states has but five men enrolled at the University...