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Harold ("Red") Grange of Illinois (who has received so much publicity that the Knickerbocker Ice Co. recommended its product to the public on the score that he has carried ice on his back) sat on a bench and saw his second and third string teammates beat Wabash on a sloppy field...
...instance, that the two great Southern songs, "Dixie" and "Old Folks at Hame," were both written by Northerners, and that the author of the latter never saw the Swanee River, but found it in an atlas? Or that the author of the pretty "On the Banks of the Wabash," and other sentimental songs, was the brother of Theodore Dreiser, most realistic of modern novelists?-Or that "Sweet Adeline" started life as "Sweet Rosalee...
...memoirs of the late Vice President of the U.S. Thomas R. Marshall, published serially by The New York Times and other newspapers, appeared these Hoosier philosophizings upon pedagogy in general, the Classics in particular: "My people chose to send me to Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Ind. It was staid, as it is yet. An old-fashioned institution, founded for the purpose, if possible, of giving to a young man what I am pleased to call a cultural education; that is, to train him in those studies and direct his mind along those lines which will give to him powers...
...came from old U. S. stock-on his father's side from the family which produced John Marshall; on his mother's side from Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. At 19, he was graduated from Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.). At 21, he took to the bar and stayed there for 34 years...
...another of the "Big Four" Eastern lines (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio and Nickel Plate), Loree resolved to do some of the eating himself, and purchased the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh. Next, his hand was suspected in a mysterious purchase of the Ann Arbor by the Wabash- which, as is well known, Air. Loree covets lor his "fifth system." As yet, however, this proposal for another Eastern railway merger is not taken seriously, except as an obstructing move to the recognized "Big Four." For Loree's "fifth system" must apparently include the Lehigh or Lackawanna to gain its indispensable...