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...springtime the buds of the fruit trees swell and swell. Finally there comes a point where they cannot swell longer, and they burst- the peach tree into warm pink bloom, the apple modestly, into flushed white flower. So is it with Hiram W. Johnson and with William G. McAdoo...
...nucleus for the squad will be formed by some 60 men drawn largely from last year's University. Freshman and class crew squads, and these will all report today. In addition a quantity of new material is expected which should swell the total attendance to well over a hundred. Work on the machines will start tomorrow with practice on the river scheduled to start shortly thereafter. A cut is contemplated in about a week, three crews to be retained and the rest relegated to positions on the class and 150-pound squads...
...white men, two Negroes and 20 Chinese remained. The crew knew that the Chinese had $5,000 in unpaid passage money. The schooner rolled on a gentle swell. One of the crew went to the hatch and ordered five coolies on deck?a storm was coming up; the ship must be made ready...
...greatest orchestra conductor, Toscannini, in Italy a very god. This prodigious musician is one of the radical innovators among contemporary Italian musicians. There are many old operatic customs that he does not like. For instance, in Italy, as here, audiences have the habits of coming in late, especially the swell folk...
...dancing at two o'clock in the morning, it will be wholly a class affair. The singing competition in itself is a means towards accomplishing, class unity for who is there who has ever lived in the Freshman Dormitories who does not feel his heart swell at the thought of his hall's tremendous victories in singing such songs as the "Pilgrims' Chorus" and "Upidee"! Nevertheless, though one hall win the singing competition more often than the others, the end is view is always the same, and is usually successfully accomplished. For it is concerned both with the gathering...