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With the winds of a recent 6 to 3 win over M.I.T., whipping at their heels, the Varsity golfers will tramp the Winchester fairways this afternoon in an effort to make a smooth-stroking Bowdoin team their second victim of the season...
...your issue of Dec. 16, in a very able analysis of the difficulties of the British Empire (page 30), your reporter states: "British justice, tramp steamers and Scotch whiskey loosely bind a diverse association of peoples...
Efforts to locate Fred Husband, the author of the hobo plan, were at first unsuccessful due to the fact that Planner Husband is himself a tramp. The Vagrancy Committee tried to trace him with the help of the newspapers. Last week he was discovered in a fish & chips shop...
Education of a Tramp. After the fourth grade in Pueblo, Colo., Damon Runyon's schooling ended, and his education began. His tutors (like "Our Old Man," as he later called his dad) were tramp printers who could quote the Bible, Shakespeare and Bob Ingersoll with equal conviction. From them he learned, among other priceless lessons, to be a good listener...
British justice, tramp steamers and Scotch whiskey loosely bind a diverse association of peoples. The world, struggling nervously with the problems of how to place in peaceable association even more diverse groups, finds the British Empire an embarrassment and an inspiration. Meanwhile, the Empire, a hodgepodge of real estate scattered all over the globe (see map), is changing more rapidly than ever in its confused history. Most of the changes turn around the sincere efforts of the British Government to satisfy (without exchanging anarchy for stability) colonial peoples' hopes of self-government...