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...second informal game during spring practice, Coach Welch's soccer players will oppose the Clan Stewart at 3 o'clock today on Soldiers Field. The University eleven will have practically the same line-up that scored the 1 to 0 victory over Northeastern University last Saturday. During the week the team has been given a blackboard talk and several scrimmages in order to improve the poor team-work that was exhibited in the last game...
...Clan Stewart is an amateur seccer club in Boston composed of several former English and Scotch players...
...Significance. Mr. Pinney is a definite addition to family portraits of the Babbitt clan. He is a spectacle intolerable in his noisy stupidity. But he is pathetic in his back-slapping assumption of confidence. He has built for himself a legend of his own magnificence, only at times shattered by the cold contact of reality. Mrs. Pinney, too, is perfect in her way. She is the unmistakable, corpulent complement of all Pinneys. But the author has gone no further. The entire book is devoted to a repetitious chronicle of the unimportant doings of the Pinneys. It never rises much above...
...Texas. "It is one of the after effects of the great war," he continued, "one of the symptoms of the times. It is growing all the time, but is sure to run its course in a few years like other organizations of violence. I think it remarkable that the Clan has won so many supporters in the North and West, for it grew up as a protection for the Southerners against the carpet-bagger. The reason that this organization has been able to enlarge its scope so successfully is because it has everywhere appealed to local religious and racial antagonisms...
...with the wine of excuse and entreaty until his will is bent to the individual's purpose. The storm of hard-luck stories and heart-appeals that daily besiege a monitor's ear would do credit to a Hollywood composition course. And it is the sternest of the monitorial clan that cannot be bent now and then before the storm...