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...known, the red agitators are bending every effort to win Illinois and Minnesota, which would give them an unbroken stronghold through the center of the middle-west. Although Chicago's mayor is not admittedly pro-Bolshevic, but only pro-Thompson, many of his utterances, calculated to win votes, have sown broadcast the seed of labor dissension...
...same arguments with the same proof to the same conclusion are adduced. Our professors are always called unapproachable, and the undergraduates of the University are branded more or less delicately as "snobs," the proof of their snobbery being sown thick with mention of Gold Coasts, clubs and other evil inventions. It is somewhat of a question whether a man is an aristocrat even if he puts no virtuous boycott on Mt. Auburn street dormitories, and is social enough to like to meet his friends in a social organization...
...Locker Building, new floors have been laid, the walls have been plastered and the toilets rearranged. Where the grass on the football field was worn away, seed has been sown and the whole field has been covered with a fertilizer. The two grand stands at the ends of the field have been removed because they interfered with the running track, which will be used next spring. The track will be thoroughly rolled, and, if necessary, slightly banked at the turns...
...diamond, which was originally intended to point southwest, has been swung round on its axis, so that it now points northwest. The diamond has already been sodded and the outfield graded and sown with grass seed. The grass is already up, and in order that the field may not be spoiled it is earnestly hoped that men will not walk...
...reductions. They left the cause, and forbade the effect. The truce between railroads was broken, and they were forced again into secret war. The law that declared that all firms shall be treated alike really intensified the inequality. Since reductions are illegal, they must be secret, and thus are sown the seeds of great monopolies much more dangerous than the railroads at the worst...