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...even more startling mass plays and formations. The second half of the Harvard-Yale game of 1892 saw the introduction in collegiate football of the "Flying Wedge". This was followed by "Guards Back," "Tackles Back," the "Turtle Back," and other plays conceived for the purpose of utilizing momentum and brute force...
...evaluation of it in the world of values, as seen in language, literature, culture, civilization, society and the state, law, architecture, art, science, morals and religion. Without this revelation of inner meaning and significance the external physical universe would be but an immense empty shell or crumpled surface. The brute fact here receives its meaning, and a new world arises which gives to nature whatever significance it has. As against the physical configurations of nature we see here the ideal patterns or wholes freely created by the human spirit as a home and an environment for itself...
...thought in vulgarizing education? Should not a large part of the people-the simple, kindly folk-be left in ignorance so that they may carry on the world's most valued work? "Too much reading, even educational, may be stupefying and enslaving as the treadmill rounds of brute labor." Let the librarians concern them- selves with the few, to bring together the right book and the right reader. Let them deal only in the good, the first rate, and leave the "canned goods of literature" to the drugstores and chain libraries who give the public what it wants...
...robbing the dead and wounded. At home, as the War goes worse and worse for Russia, he sees and feels the pinch of starvation begin, and the happy band of dogs at the dump heap grow quarrelsome until they are all, save Siedoi and mad Tsygan and a big brute called Pirate, shot down to conserve food. He sees the rising of the villagers and peasants, His Majesty the People led by the now legless rascal Peter, and their march upon the Prince's estate, where they hang the Prince's dogs one by one (including lovely Svietlana...
...House. With a good thumping Republican majority Speaker Longworth. Floor Leader Tilson and Rules Chairman Snell have ruled the House since 1925 by brute force rather than by parliamentary skill or legislative ability. No such majority will they have in the next Congress to enforce their will. Hence last week Republican Insurgency raised its head again in the form of a demand to liberalize the House rules as the price of party support. Well aware that the 12 or 15 disgruntled votes from the Northwest could wipe out their control, Messrs. Longworth, Tilson & Snell were ready to compromise. What...