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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This unfortunate woman who sits in the sideshow of Ringling Brothers "between Fat Lady and Armless Wonder" and "affects white lace hats, woolen mittens and high laced shoes" has a story which is far from mirth-provoking. Could it have been written up for you by O. Henry, it would have provoked tears rather than laughter. The facts are as follows...
There remained a further source of information. Washington correspondents, attending one of the bi-weekly White House conferences, submitted their usual sheaf of written questions, most of them devoted to the O'Shea statement. Going through the bundle of queries, the successor to the White House Spokesman* answered one concerning the appointment of certain judges, one concerning the progress of flood relief, one concerning a treaty with Panama which settled the matter of competition between Panama merchants and U. S. Government stores in the Canal strip. He then bade the correspondents farewell...
...editors wish to get the undergraduate point of view they must be prepared to accept much that is in every way untrue and false as compared with a more mature understanding. The worst and most hectic tales of college life are written either by college students or by young graduates. And the more intelligent samples come from men who have been away from college long enough to discuss it calmly, and who have lost what may well be termed a sophomoric attitude toward life and academic environment...
There are occasions when accuracy and balance are not desirable in fiction, when personal narrative, however biased, however immature, is wanted. And in such occasions college stories written by undergraduates exactly fit the requirements. They offer what is at the moment the sentiment of the writer and although they may be nothing but expressions of that fleeting sentiment and may violate all the rules of reality, to say nothing of good taste, they are for that reason valuable. But to go the undergraduate for the truth-whatever that is-about himself and his fellows is as wise as to seek...
...following article was written especially for the Crimson by S. deJ. Osborne '26, former manager of University track and football and at present editor of the H. A. A. News...