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Reviving from the blow dealt by Pennsylvania on October 10, the Brown eleven ran roughshod ever its second opponent from the Pine Tree State. Earlier in the season Colby was trampled under foot in the new Brown stadium...
...less hot air is lost from heat pipes when they are properly swaddled. Before the Anaconda Copper Co.'s glittering display, the crowds milled thickly: an ingot of solid gold! A bottle of platinum filings! Of palladium! In a far corner, a genial little man plunged a gas blow torch into a jug of water. "See, it still burns furiously. And in that vat of molten lead, too. Reason: our patent pumps and tanks mix with ordinary city gas all the air it needs to burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal...
...Sproul, who is such a mind himself, is too reticent about striking a sufficiently salient blow for his cause. There is need for more dreaming in the American university. The progress of body, of mind is stressed too much,--the advance of fancy too little. When the wise men of his time asked Pythagoras his chief delights, he named children and stars. Most university dwellers forget the former while they hitch modernized wagons to the latter. They cannot trifle with dreams...
What flotsam 'hap the winds blow...
...Thanksgiving, unless one is a mental hermit. The thousands of universities and colleges between the two oceans put forth elevens that range the country fighting for national recognition. The papers play up their prowess. Individual players, little colleges, pop into the limelight overnight. And over all and through all blow the tart autumn breezes, whipping up the flames in the follage, and in the girls cheeks, and filling the heart of man with a desire for heroism. To go to college and play football has the same attraction now for the boys of this country that Hollywood...