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...like to see him taking his week-end tramps among the woods and hills, . . . always alone, except for two stalwart figures that follow at a discreet distance, his hat off, his cherry-wood pipe in full blast?he once confessed that he had never given more than a shilling for a pipe?and his long strides devouring the miles with an air of lusty exhilaration. He is English to the core and loves his country for the right things...
...Deputation Teams are small groups of three or four men each, organized by a student committee under the general supervision of the Phillips Brooks House, who make week-end trips to small town churches with a view to stimulating among the boys an interest in higher education, all-round development, and Christian living. Men are chosen, who have taken interest in some one field studies, religious work, athletics, or some other similar activity. An attempt is made to place on each team men who complement each other in their talents; some make speeches, others play musical instruments, and some devote...
...figured heavily in the summary of the track teams, both Freshman and University for the last two years. Against Yale last spring he gained three second places in his specialties, the shot-put, the javelin throw, and the discus event. He also qualified for the Intercollegiates on the following week-end, and though he failed to break into the scoring column in the face of the country's best weight men, he showed sufficient potentiality to make him a serious threat for intercollegiate honors this spring...
...content with the Ibis bird, the Lampoon collected a menagerie for the week-end festivities incidental to their first barn dance. A turkey and a pig, were the guests of honor at the grand affair, thus breaking the ancient traditions, which admitted within the sacred precincts only humans, editors, and the Ibis himself...
...Present day students having no definite purpose, are essentially drifters, products of economic ease who live on the work of others," stated Dr. G. A. Coe, Professor of Religious Education at Columbia, at the third Intercollegiate Parley on American College Education held last week-end at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut...