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...look back and see that their cash accounts have been ridiculously handled; that their time gas been wanted here and there, and that such treasured ideals as Efficiency and Purpose have gone to the damnation bow-wows. And then they look ahead and make resolutions. Those holes in the trouser pockets shall be sewed up, and the old gentleman with the hour-glass and the sickle shall march more properly in time to the music. This above all; everybody will henceforward be true to his purpose. Everybody has a purpose of course; if he hasn't, He has no excuse...
...They also do away with the necessity of a vest. Shoes are brown with very light saddles; the last word in college nattiness. But the men who labor for the good Felix may mix up the colors a bit. Of socks we have nothing to report; 21 inches of trouser cuff did away with all possibility of discovering them...
...allowed to play football, a question that enjoys a peculiar frightfulness just after the season, has just had a particularly obnoxious renascence. With the open season a month over, the familiar problem has pushed up the cover of the ashcan, straightened its necktie, shined its shoes on its trouser legs, and strode boldly into the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Carnegie Foundation has, by means of intelligence tests (and what a world of blasted hopes and teary smiles is in those two words!) discovered that college athletes rate thus according to intelligence: Tennis players, 87 percent; fencers...
...please, that other trouser...
...bottoms of their coats. Stalwart, silver-haired Secretary James John Davis (Labor) put one hand in his pocket, straightened his shoulders and let a small boyish smile start. Next, bulking solidly behind the President, was Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover (Commerce) who casually plunged each hand into a trouser pocket (without brushing his coat back) and squinted pleasantly. Secretary William M. Jardine (Agriculture), baldest Cabinet member, put his right hand in his trouser pocket (with coat swung back), hid his left hand behind him and gazed seriously, straight ahead. Secretary Hubert Work (Interior), but for whose mustache and Secretary Mellon...