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Artists and mountain climbers have at least one common qualification. Dizziness must have no terrors for either. Perched on their respective peaks, the world becomes for them a distant and not particularly agreeable noise, wafted irrelevantly from an ignoble abyss. Conversely, the world is insignificantly concerned with the doings of the Alp scalers. Once you get appreciably above sealevel, you cease to be anybody's business. Incidentally, you cease to have any business of your own. Therein lies the glorious, soaring futility of art and mountaineering alike. Neither of them have any conceivable relation to life and the practical living...
...Eastern college elevens were dropped from the select group of unbeaten teams as a result of Saturday's games. Those to fall from their lofty perches near the top rungs of the football ladder were Cornell, Brown, Georgetown and Washington and Jefferson. The University and Princeton having avoided the abyss of defeat by playing a tie game, are two among the seven who can still display clean slates. The others are Penn State, Pittsburg, Wesleyan, Stevens Tech and Boston College...
...purpose cheat the charmed abyss...
...London is best known as a writer of fiction; but in such books as "The War of the Classes," and "The People of the Abyss," he has given the results of his study of socialism and of his investigations of the condition of the poor. His subject tonight will include a definition of social revolution, with an estimate of the strength of the "revolutionists" throughout the world, and, under the topic "Why the Revolution Must Come," an arraignment of the capitalist class for their mismanagement of society...
...DeWolf, its author. has dealt in this particular bit of fiction with scenes and people widely different from those he delineated so well in his story "After Twenty Years," in the Advocate. The story which appears today is a student reminiscent sketch, depicting in a perfectly natural manner the abyss of mortification into which a particular seaside resort, a particular girl, and a particular masquerade ball plunged a certain college man. The plot is clever and well worked out and the language shows no inappropriate word or phrase...