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Football in 1888 was largely a matter of brute force. Even the flying wedge and tandem formations had yet to make their approved appearance. Without open play, the ball started from the rush-line and went forward as far as the combined strength of the beefy rushers could carry...
...hard fight against the elements; while for the disciple of Jung, the white whale is the symbol of the Unconscious which torments man, and yet is the source of all his proudest efforts." Less tortuous is Mr. Mumford's own interpretation: "The white whale stands for the brute energies of existence, blind, fatal, and overpowering, while Ahab is the spirit of man small and feeble, but purposive, that pits its puniness against this might, and its purpose against the blank senselessness of power...
...priceless German chemical patents (explosives, dyestuffs, drugs) which the Government had confiscated as a War retaliation, of licensing U. S. producing chemists to use those patents on a royalty basis. The Chemical Foundation has changed the U. S. Chemical industry from a whining, rickety infant to a closemouthed, lustry brute, equal to Germany's and England's. For ten years the brute has paid the Foundation its millions of royalties, and for ten years the Foundation has given those millions away-to scientific institutions and universities, for publishing magazines and books,* for student prizes. But Foundation intents...
...because it prepares its students for the profession which requires a maximum of brute strength has the Dental School decided on compulsory athletics for its members. More probably the authorities realized that the men in the Dental School are peculiarly unfortunate in their relation to athletic facilities, lying as they do far from the gymnasia and squash courts of Cambridge. Students in the Law and Business Schools, as well as those in the graduate schools more closely related to the College, have always found it easy to spend a little time each day in Hemenway or a conveniently located squash...
...refrain are "Personality." Possession. Edgar Selwyn is not a playwright who takes his comedy too lightly. Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal ferocities. When her bond-broking husband (Walter Connolly) blankets himself with another lady, the wife follows, gnashing threats of duty. All the forces of law and decency seem allied with the dreadful spouse; even the bond-broker's son helps persuade him to leave the love who does...