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...Background of the Puritan Revolution", Professor Whitney, Emerson...
When Tex Rickard died last fortnight, the prizefight business in which he had become famed was courteously conceded to be an honorable one. Actually, it is not. So much Author March knows about the background against which he versifies the story of a colored boxer whose managers took pay to have him lose a fight, and who, not aware of this arrangement, won the fight, and was then murdered for winning...
...special service of this unity is in the background which it lends to the discussion, of specific questions. The problems facing the College which President Lowell touches on are by no means unrelated to conditions elsewhere under his jurisdiction. Imperative changes recommended in the curriculum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences derive directly from altered standards in undergraduate academic circles. It is in the lack of comprehension of such interrelations, which is dependent upon his limited viewpoint, that the undergraduate fails generally to achieve an intelligent interest in his own affairs. To make him University-conscious...
...grow hourly more on the defensive. The bill was being "pounded," the Senator was being "heckled," the "treaty foes" were "hurling" questions, suggestions, criticisms. The Senator passed from the oratorical into the conversational; galleries and stenographers strained ears to catch low-toned thrusts and parries. Relatively in the background remained Senator Reed of Missouri, big anti-treaty gun still to be shot off. Meanwhile Bruce of Maryland, Johnson of California, Robinson of Indiana, Bingham of Connecticut, many another smaller gun popped, snapped, sputtered. The Senator from Idaho began somewhat to resemble an Horatius at the bridge, a Leonidas at Thermopylae...
...would want young men," said Capt. Robert Bartlett, last week, "tenderfeet, enthusiastic as hell . . . college trained men . . . with their background and enthusiasm they would know what to do when we got there." He was discussing his plan to man a saucer-shaped ship, sail it north of Bering Strait, let it freeze into the ice, then wait three or four years while the ship drifted with the ice floes over the North Pole and down into the Atlantic Ocean...