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Unfortunately, Imperial Heaven not seldom seems to reply to Chinese prayers by sending a wet dragon after a dry. Thus 2,000,000 Chinese perished through drowning and starvation after the crops in Honan province had been destroyed by the great, classic flood of 1887-1889. So recently as 1925, Shantung (parched last summer) was inundated by a relatively slight overflow of the great Hwang Ho ("Yellow River") which none the less washed away crops sufficient to feed millions for a year...
...equipment of the building, still only in its tentative stage, one notices a definite shift in the theory of exercise. Hemenway offers a classic example of an athletic workshop. Dumbells, pulleys, and other machines of torture abound; exercise, "work", abounds. In the proposed building, the emphasis will have moved with the times. Work will yield to fun and recreation, exercise to competition. If Harvard men of the future lose their Hemenway acquired, Strongfertian muscular development, they may at least hope to replace it by better all-round condition and a sense of humor...
Died. Signorinetta, 23, winner of the Derby Stakes at Epsom (1908) at 100-to-1, and last filly to capture this classic; on the estate of Lord Rosebery, her owner, at Epsom...
...this ribald and entertaining, albeit disrespectful opus Ernest Boyd sets out to fire the whiskers of several highly respected lit'ry gents of the classic English school, and in spite of the fact that a good deal of what he says is patently untrue, or at least misleading, it must be admitted that his theses are never anything but plausible. The best traditions of English letters seem to present to him an endless and enchanting vista of abstract crockery to be broken with loud pagan snorts and bellows, and while he not infrequently builds an elaborate argument of disproof where...
...free himself to a greater extent from the exacting demands of outside activities and devote himself to "the problem of the inner life", cease to be the specialist and become more the man of leisure, Professor Babbitt's Utopia of Socratic standardization is plainly impossible. He advocates a "classic restraint" as the only solution to the hectic post-romantic ineffectuality of American civilization and appeals to academic circles to exercise their control in the defeat of the hydra-headed monsters of distracting niaterialism and ultimate inefficiency...