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...Army's points in the discussion of eligibility rules has always been that many of its best football players would be eligible anywhere. Jack Buckler, a yearling from Waco, substitute this season for Ken Fields, is a case in point. So is rapid little Quarterback Vidal. Brother of a famed Army end, Gene Vidal, who was on the team in 1916-17, he finished school at 15, waited a year, entered Wrest Point when he was still under age. This season, his first as a member of the first-string team, he was Army's best broken field...
...club at present owns one plane, a Waco, powered with a Warner engine. It is kept at the East Boston Airport, and is used by members for instruction and cross country trips...
...native-born Texan and a rustic who has never shot a gun, baited a hook, used tobacco in any form, or drunk anything stronger than Brazos water.''* Thus wrote the late President Samuel Palmer Brooks of Baylor University (Waco. Tex.) in his introduction to Battles for Peace, a collection of addresses by his good friend Pat Morris Neff. Many people might have doubted that such a Texan ever existed. Pat Neff not only existed but became Texas' Governor (1921-25). Well-known now is the story of how. hunting with a party which included the late William Jennings Bryan...
Year ago Pat Neff, who had resumed his old law practice in Waco, hurried out to Baylor. His friend Sam Brooks lay dying of cancer, signing diplomas for his seniors almost to the hour of his death (TIME, May 18). Lawyer Neff watched by his side. Between the two was long and close friendship. They had roomed together for a time at Baylor, from which Pat Neff was graduated in 1894. Brooks became Baylor's president in 1902, Neff its board president in 1903. Both worked for peace, the one as organizer of Texas' first State Peace Congress...
...Brazos River flows through Waco, Tex. * Richest four are Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Chicago. Fifth was M. I. T. ?Cornell announced last week it faced a $250,000 deficit for the year. Dreading salary cuts, it asked alumni...