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...hard, for one who lived in the good old days when John, the Orangeman assuaged the undergraduate palate, to come back and find everything so changed. Not only architecturally,--there is a horrible spick-span new pile on the site of old Dane Hall with its pleasant lived buttresses, and not a trace of the moss-grown old pump remains but in the undergraduate attitude, all is bustle and commercialism, coldness, and discourtesy. I asked two young snobs with Dickey ties to direct me to the headquarters of the Graduate Day Committee. Their only reply was a shrug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Those In Favor? | 5/11/1926 | See Source »

...Building was also in the mind of President Thomas D. Boyd on the opening day at Louisiana State University. In his spick and span office in the University's new $5,000,000 "plant" south of Baton Rouge, he conferred with railway officials upon the building of a three-track spur to the entrance of the football arena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Colleges | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

Chileans. The same day six swarthy 'Chilean feet landed in New York. Quintin Romero-Rojas, Chilean heavyweight, "amiable, hearty, piefaced," ambitious to cross fists with Jack Dempsey, operated two of them. With him were Louis Vincentini "spick and span" lightweight, and David Echeverria Valdes, manager. By his own request, Romero-Rojas would be known as Romero. Said he: "I will fight anybody selected for me. But I want the man to 'be of recognized ability." Vincentini is to box Pal Moran on May 2. He is "satisfied" with the prospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fists, Feet | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

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