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...Exposition, Judge Biggar was in his customary place at the centre of the arena at the Union Stock Yards. Things looked pretty much as usual. There were the familiar signs-THIS SHOW HAS BEEN DISINFECTED; the familiar sights & sounds-miles of red bunting, polo players in bright blue hats, stolid farmers' boys in overalls, svelte geldings, grunting swine, bleating sheep, sleepy steers annoyed at constant currying. Judge Biggar saw familiar faces among the exhibitors-23 year-old Elliott Brown of Rose Hill, Iowa, to whose steer he had awarded the grand prize three years ago; Gentleman Farmer Oakleigh Thorne...
...would like to spend their Sophomore or Junior year in a European University, and at the same time wish to return to graduate from Harvard with their original class. When such a student approaches the authorities as to future valuation of his foreign credits he is met with a stolid indifference, and is given no assurance that a year's work, even in the best of schools, will be credited in full at Harvard...
...last week, beaming with pride as one of his flying boats glided out of a soupy fog to a landing. This was no ordinary flying-boat, nor an ordinary flight. It was the sturdy Greenland Wai (Greenland Whale) completing a round-the-world trip begun 14 weeks ago, with stolid Wolfgang von Gronau and three aides as master and crew...
There are many things one longs to say to an indifferent Harvard. To the commonplace young man, the matter of fact young man, the study and stolid-y, week-end half-holiday, three A's and a B young man, the message...
First Game. Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankees' first baseman since 1925. is a heavyset, stolid young man and one of the few professional baseballers who plays on a home town team. His Teutonic mother & father were caretakers at a Columbia fraternity house. Son Lou went to Columbia, played on the ball team, signed a contract with the Yankees. Babe Ruth coached him in batting: in a year or two Gehrig was, next to Ruth, the hardest hitter in the most potent batting machine baseball had ever know:n. In 1927, Gehrig was voted most valuable player in the American...