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...eight-page edition containing a full report of the winter athletic games: "The copy was written in the gymnasium as the games progressed and was carried to the office by half a dozen messenger boys. It was put in type as fast as received. The last event was the tug of war, lasting several minutes. Before this was finished a full report of all preceding events was set up. The line "The tug-of-war was won by '8--was already in type. The winning class was signalled across the Yard, the one part of type was dropped into form...
...There are quantities of people who condemn a play because it happens to be unpleasant. Their idea of the Theatre is a place to go for a good laugh or a tug of war among the heart strings. The preponderance of this type of drama lover has killed many a fine play in its deserving youth. For these A Man's Man is a good play to stay away from...
...copy," writes one of the Herald editors in a history of the CRIMSON, "was written in the gymnasium as the games progressed, and sent to the office by half a dozen messenger boys. It was put in type as fast as received. The last event was the tug-of-war, lasting several minutes. Before this was finished, a full report of all preceding events...
...line: 'The tug-of-war was won by '8 was already in type. The winning class was signalled across the Yard, the one piece of type was dropped into the form, and the press was started. The extras were in the hands of the students as they came across the yard...
Officers. Bank underlings who tug valiantly at their bootstraps throughout the land were again encouraged by the Association's annual bow in their direction.-For President of the A. B. A. was chosen the noted Alabama banker, Oscar Wells, President of the First National Bank of Birmingham. Born in a lopsided Missouri log cabin, Mr. Wells had tilled the soil, attended an obscure college, and risen from the springboard of his uncle's bank to be first Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Tex. He is rubicund yet determined; his rise has not been too meteoric...