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Captain McCall, who has been suffering from a slight injury, will probably be able to run. He is expected to face the starter in the 440 yard run with Home and Swope, the speedy Green quarter miler. The Dartmouth aggregation is stronger this season than last and counts on victories in the hurdles, high jump 880 yard run, and the javelin. Wells, holder of the indoor intercollegiate hurdling championship, is expected to lead the timber toppers in both the high and low hurdling events. Maynard is conceded the advantage in the high jump, while Coach Hillman expects Smith to break...
...yard dash: Swope, Hume, McCall...
...Knowledge tied for first place among the men, with 96%. But the editors dedicated their volume to a 95% man, "who," they said, "might have dictated the answers to these questions and spared the authors the trouble of looking them up." This 95-percenter was energetic Editor Herbert Bayard Swope of the World, among whose favorite pastimes is sitting, a sharp-witted, rufous Zeus, among lesser immortals of his metromundane Olympus, being "it" (all alone) in a game of Nebuchadnezzar. When Ask Me Another! was published last week it contained 30 general quizzes and 10 special ones. Editor Swope...
...matters? Harvard men, and many a World-reader, knew. The publishers Pulitzer of the World were Harvard men; Ralph, the elder, having been graduated an A. B. in 1900; younger Joseph having attended, 1904-06. The executive editor of the World, red-headed Herbert B. Swope, would have been Harvard '03 but for an accident. The lumbering World confessionist-colyumist, Heywood Broun, had sat to Harvard professors from 1906 to 1910. And the World editorial writer, Walter Lippmann, fierce purist, who had doubtless dictated the World's rebuke, had in his precocious youth completed the four-year Harvard...
None knows better than Editor Swope how to provoke. He is the greatest of news-crusaders...