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There is no doubt in the world that college spirit counts in football. The sense of solidarity with their human background always gives men strength in combat, just as a tendency to individualism weakens them. The boy who can feel that it is his Alma Mater bucking the line, and not he, is worth more on the gridiron than his fellow of even greater strength and speed who in his subconscious represents only himself. This explains why certain institutions, often with scanty or inferior material, have the habit of turning out winning football tean's. With all due salaams...
...contributed to her glories. Mr. Baker had worked for years to accomplish in this field what Harvard has been able to do in so many of the liberal arts, and give to the teaching of play-writing and the allied branches of the theatre the needed university sanction and background. Not only were the cramped quarters of Massachusetts Hall and the inappropriate Agassiz stage entirely disproportionate to the work which was being done, but completely inconsistent with Harvard traditions. But this is not the time to conjecture why Yale could offer more in this direction than we, nor to bewail...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia millionnaire art collector: "Directly following the marriage last week of my daughter, Fifi (see p. 32) it was reported from Manhattan that my agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds...
...Kwong is a native of China and has been in this country several years. A part of his life has been spent in Australia, so that he has a genuinely international background. He is a graduate of Boston University School of Business Administration and is now a student in the Boston University School of Liberal Arts. He is recognized leader among the Chinese Students of greater Boston and on several occasions he has represented Boston University on the debating team...
...Marblehead manuscripts provide a background of atmosphere ror the trade of the 19th century. Several documents relate incidents connected with the embargo of 1808 and others describe the magnitude of the carrying trade of the clipper era. The value of the collection will increase as interest in the post-Colonial period deepens. It affords a very thorough source of information on the commercial growth of New England and covers the critical events...