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...Making a classic analogy of the Harvard student's attitude with that of the ancient Greek. Dr. Lowell stated that his university's object was "the cultivation of physical excellence in young men." This policy supersedes the interest in their collegiate teams, he feels. Such a principle is in direct contrast to the Romans' ideas, for their main interest was in seeing the chosen few display their prowess, and not in athletics of any sort for the multitude. With these Romans Dr. Lowell compares the huge crowds which throng stadiums in the fall, and who give to athletic contests...
...manufacturing company in the world. It had 14,000 employes, most of whom lived in Mr. Pullman's model city- Pullman, Ill. In 1894 came the famed Pullman strike, featured by the late Eugene Victor Debs's rise to national prominence and by Mr. Pullman's classic statement: There is nothing to arbitrate. Mr. Pullman died (1897) of angina pectoris...
...sufficient data-the whorling paths of cream as it pours into a breakfast cup of coffee, for example. Factors are what the mathematician asks for. He can describe more accurately than the man in the street or the academic scientist what will happen from combinations of those factors. A classic case: Albert Einstein's prediction of starlight bending...
...official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited the U. S. in 1924 and refused to commemorate the event in rhyme, a Manhattan tabloid carried what newspapermen call the classic headline of all time: KING'S CANARY WILL NOT CHIRP...
Precise little mechanical steps grouped to suggest the scaffolding of the classic ballet, a circus girl teetering on a tight rope, a novice tempted by visions of earthly pleasures, a campus flapper inspired by John Held Jr.'s caricatures?of such varied and original material did Ruth Page create the Manhattan program. Particularly interesting were the Balinese impressions gathered from the recent visit there;* a dance called Sun-Worshippers showing a beach group in bathing suits against a backdrop of skyscrapers; blues done in crazy, geometric design...