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...Springfield quintet kept them fighting for every point. King in the center berth was especially noticeable during the first session, scoring four baskets from the floor and breaking up the Springfield attack time after time. The visitors, however, had an advantage in speed, somewhat nullified, however, by careless shooting. At no point in the half did either team have an advantage of more than two baskets and when the whistle blew the score stood 20-19 in favor of the Crimson...
Evidently American and British hospitality are not so widely divergent after all. We have always been taught to think the British reserved and non-committal, and have rather prided ourselves on cur furious hospitality and careless assumption of familiarity--the traits with which Dickens drew Colonel Diver. The "man on the street" may still up-hold these traditions, but with the colleges it is apparently otherwise. The supposedly staid Cantabrigians are the ones who clamber over carriages, while with all its Americanism Harvard has never been known to cause its visitors any strain other than that upon the eardrums...
...were very brilliant when she was merry or excited. Her expansive face had no lines in it, and her mouth was perfection of curves, the teeth white and even. Her hair was red-brown, curling in rich profusion, scented with the hinano-flower, adorning her charmingly posed head in careless grace...
...letter. This was brought home to me by a heading in the paper of the small town where I lived. The heading was on an article announcing the retirement of an aged car conductor, and ran, 'Pinched Tickets for Twenty-five Years'--which may have been true but was careless...
Students in preparatory schools who are looking forward to four careless years of rollicking good fellowship based on the fact that they are approximately of the same age and let loose upon the town for the first time should seek a college where the majority of undergraduates are sufficiently immature to want...