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...Champions or no champions, let us remember that we have a team of which we may be justly proud, and that each wearer of the Purple is giving his all for Alma Mater. Let us cease to shed April showers on the buried past and look forward to the future with keen expectation and above all with loyalty Holy Cross is noted for her ninth inning rallies, which are due, not a little, to support from the stands. We need action leave the inertia in the Physics laboratory, and show the boys that we are with them during this...
...addition to his powders, "Dr." Pearce also does business in charms. There is the Allah Charm, which will aid the wearer in contracting a wealthy marriage and is priced at only $3.49. There is the King Solomon's Wisdom Stone, "very valuable and charged with invisible life." There is the Black Cat's Wishbone, excellent for making dice behave and prompting the selection of winning horses. And there is the Lucky Turrarie, a general charm to keep evil spirits away from the homes it blesses...
...Mantua, cross-legged tailors were busy last week cutting scores of classic Roman togas from wide bolts of the traditional white woolen cloth. To make a toga for a wearer 5 ft. 8 in. tall, they snipped out a flattened semicircle, 17 ft. from tip to tip, and 5 ft. broad at the widest point. After binding the edges the toga was complete, was taken to the Accademia Vergiliana, famed Mantuan university. There, later in the week, arrived august professors from every Italian university; also from Oxford, Cambridge, La Sorbonne and many another foreign seat of lore...
...dealing in men's wear, opened, through its advertising columns, new and alluring vistas to the smart (sartorially) student. These merchants have it would seem, sox innumerable--not the common or vulgar type of sox, but something entirely different and revolutionary. To wit:--sox with the name of the wearer's alma mater embroidered, sewn or woven on the sides, where the clock usually runs. Thus, one sits down, adjusts one's trousers, crosses one's legs--and Jo! there is a Yale, Princeton, Michigan or what not man. While the possibilities are interesting in male colleges and universities...
...public demonstration before a Mayor Quinn. Chief Inspector P. J. Hurley, and other municipal notables to prove the absolute safety of their vests. In order that the whole affair might be quite open and above board the Boston agents decided to get a Harvard man to appear as the wearer of the vest. An offer of $25 was made to any student who would brave the point-blank fire of a pistol in the interests of public safety and knowledge...