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...happy. That's their motto. But dammit, there's no easy road to learning." His masters, who sir him as the students do, conduct their classes with Victorian formality, emphasize the Scriptures, Greek and Latin: Boys who break minor rules are punished by extra work. Those who commit more serious offenses get a caning in the headmaster's office...
...abundance of personalities makes the book an entertaining study. They participate in significant and generally amusing incidents that are friendly even when they show the Bostonians' aplomb in a seamy or mundane light. Mr. Amory does not commit the error of falling into satire, nor does he treat his subject with the glazed veneration that a member of the breed might easily have done. Instead, in the chapter entitled "Change and Status Quo," he sums up the pros and cons of having such a group, and indicates the transformations that time has wrought...
Vinco Moravec had died at the Stillman infirmary. Bill Bingham said we played the whole game under protest. Chip Gannon lost his memory and thought he was General Grant. Bill Bingham committed suicide. Dick Harlow and Ox DaGrosa fought a duel with pistols in the Hotel Kenmore and shot each other. Dave Egan had a nightmare. He dreamt there was a group of football teams called the Ivy League. Bill Bingham had a nightmare. He dreamt he didn't have enough nerve to commit suicide. President Dardon of Virginia had a nightmare. He dreamt he saw movies of a football...
...sight. Which brings us to the question of why Virginia was penalized three times for delaying the game. Just think of yourself in quarterback McCary's brogans during those huddles. When the boys asked him what the next play was, he couldn't very well come out and commit himself in such an environment of lucid confusion...
...three years Shigero Arimoto had seen seven of his companions commit suicide. He had started to take his own life on three separate occasions, but each time the thought of his seven children stopped him. Last week, lonely and desperate, Private Arimoto came out of hiding and surrendered to the U.S. conquerors of Guam. Thus he learned that the war was over...