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...Commencement to save her hair, done up the previous evening by the coiffeuse, who had no other tine for that particular lady. Another writer on Commencement--one bitter toward the fop-pishdress--declares that a roomy family coach could carry but two ladies, one sitting forward and one backward, with their hoops protruding on either side...
...trained for just such moments. "Big Bill" Edwards acted quicker than any of them. Straight as a bullet he launched his enormous bulk forward in a flying tackle that had in it all that nerve and muscle remembered of wild times on ringing fields. The gunman, still firing, crumpled backward; powder burned the sleeve of "Big Bill" Edwards; a bullet seared his arm. For a while after that he was cheered wherever he went. And even now, at a football game, in the theatre, on the street, one man will nudge another...
Mongolia's climate changed. Dry winds shriveled the vegetation; drifting sand built hills on old lakebeds. What had once been a green animal paradise became a desert called Gobi, sparsely inhabited by a sturdy but backward breed of humans, together with herds of wild asses, antelopes, domesticated sheep and draft camels. The centuries passed...
...Alexanian '27 has joined the ranks of undergraduate authors with his book. "When I Was a Boy in Armenia." The book is dedicated to Dean R. E. Bacon '16, and inscribed to Harvard University, to which the author declares his great indebtedness for his present progress from the backward education of Armenia to the higher training afforded here...
...systematic best, to make the Idaho Senator a man marked for the cause. Indeed, Mr. Borah possesses a Bryanesque build and the same loud sympathies which gave the commoner his crusading character. And both won fame from the power of invective. One cannot call the New York drys backward in recognizing the resemblance. They hope to find in Borah one who as gained note as Bryan gained it, but has not yet reaped the unpopularity that Bryan, rightly or wrongly, came to bear...