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...says: Close in the background must be an eminent banker or financier. This gentleman's dollars are as important as his endorsement. Until one is one's party's choice, one must not only be privately financed but prepared to show that one could summon large sums for the party coffers. And no great banker's endorsement, certifying to Business one's soundness as a leader, is worth much if it is unaccompanied by a substantial cash investment. This cash must not be too obvious too early, however, as in the 1920 case of Leonard...
...Council further recommends to the Sophomore Class officers that they appoint a Vigilance Committee of 20 men. In cases of flagrant unwillingness to abide by sensible traditions, this Committee shall have power to summon Freshmen before the Council. --The Princetonian...
...over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours to summon help. Twelve hours later searchers located the plane, extricated Goldsborough. They carried him eight miles to Bennington where he died next day?his 20th birthday...
...pretty, necessarily young, was undressed, turned loose in a field. The "vapours" of her virginity, explained zoologists, were what attracted the animal, dissipated his fighting spirit. Docilely the unicorn would approach the maiden, fondle her. Putting his head in her lap he would go to sleep. Then she would summon the huntsmen who would dispatch him. Also, claimed authorities, this was a valuable test 'for virginity. The unicorn, on discovering a hoax, would summarily run the lady through with his sharp horn...
...weeks at a time without seeing their tutors. Furthermore the general tendency is to take the whole system with a grain of salt until the spectre of Senior-Divisionals raises its head in the last year. Then follows a mad period of cramming, a hasty and forced attempt to summon to memory all that has been cursorily learned during the preceding two years, with the inevitable result of a quickly gained and quickly forgotten store of knowledge...