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...dynamos of the Lasker type are well-oiled-but gentler, more subtly persuasive. His training was that of a journalist-economist, after a genteel boyhood and Jesuit education in Philadelphia. He was a Washington correspondent and there learned the ins and outs of politics, which stood him in good stead when, in 1919, he started an advertising company in Manhattan with no accounts at all. His first act was to undertake, for the Association of Railroad Executives, an "educational campaign" to lead the public back to the idea that private owners and not the Government were best fitted to operate...
...pitchers against the Orange and Black he will probably and send Booth to the mound, though it is just possible that one of those who served on Saturday will again do duty. Puffer, who saw little more than an inning of labor on Saturday may start in Booth's stead...
...time of his elevation to the chair of Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Professor Copeland had intended to teach English 5, but was prevented from doing so by ill health. During the past year, therefore, Professor R. M. Gay of Simmons College, has conducted the course in his stead. Next fall will be the first time that it has been given inder Professor Copeland...
Drunkeness is declining due to the fact that more students are coming from the non-drinking classes. For example, the old drinking Southern gentleman, with a dewlap and mint julep voice is practically gone, and in his stead has risen the steady and sober man. It is from this new class, that mere and more men are coming to the University...
...Yale Second team game, he had not violated the tradition that a pitcher should be impotent with the willow, and in the ninth inning of that game, with the Yale seconds leading by three runs, Coach Lake was tempted to send a pinch hitter to bat in his stead. But, possibly reflecting that the Crimson was too far gone for even a pinch hitter to do any good, the Second team mentor allowed Puffer to take his turn at bat, though at the time two were out and the bases were groaning with impatient Crimson runners. With things thus left...