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...traveling in distant countries and of studying the annals of past times is to preserve man from the contraction of mind which those can hardly escape whose whole communion is with one generation and one neighborhood, who arrive at conclusions by means of an induction not sufficiently copious, and who therefore constantly confound exceptions with rules and accidents with essential properties." . . . "The student, like the tourist, is transported into a new state of society. He sees new fashions. He hears new models of expression. His mind is enlarged by contemplating the wide diversities of laws, of morals, and of manners...
From the author's argument, we further learn that Europe must own to one teetotaller--the Turk: his deficiencies in literary or any other kind of productions are pointed out as incontestable evidence of what want of the bowl can do. Copious citations from Milton and the Bible lend to his discourse the austerity properly pertinent to the throne of Professor of English Literature at Cambridge: occupied, incidentally, by the same...
John Freeman, copious and intricate lyricist, won with his "Poems New and Old" the Hawthornden Prize for 1920. He is a rare poet, and aloof poet, and it is not surprising that he is so little known in this country. His poems are often involved, often difficult, and often demand a re-reading. But his work has nearly always subtle turns of thought and touches of startling beauty. Few poets have his wonderful, uncanny feeling about trees...
...knowledge that our fancies are lightly turning; but how uncertain a sign! Not until the haberdashers round the Square cry aloud that Harvard's Straw-hat Day has come, when we meet Princeton on the track and diamond; not until we are enticed within to examine the copious supply of Panamas and Leghorns, and reappear with a "straw" in place of the old felt hat;--not till then do we feel convinced that spring is here...
Unlike the University squad, several men are included in the 1924 squad who have shown promise of forming a strong pitching staff. Because of the copious supply of catchers, K. N. Hill, who last year played at the receiving end of the battery at Roxbury Latin School, and A. S. Rogers, a second baseman form Middlesex have shifted to moundsmen...