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...culture; aloof, superior, spoiled, affected. They misrepresent the U. S. at Oxford and misprize it at home. Lately they have been criticized by Englishmen, and justly, for clubbing together at Oxford, avoiding the very contacts they are supposed to enjoy, injecting into the Oxford atmosphere an undesirable element, especially in competitive athletics, where they monopolize the play and attention...
...push far into the interior. Moreover, Mr. Bingham has visited and talked with all the principal Chinese leaders at the three chief seats of Chinese government: Peking, Nanking, Hankow. When the Senator emerged at Shanghai last week his mind held a panoramic picture of China in which each element was the prize of costly, hard-sought research...
...obscured by the black disc of the moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern observers know it has gaseous structure; contains an unknown element which gives a green ray in the spectroscope. This element is called "coronium" for convenience...
...literature for the same reason people take to playing the base viol. In creating, and he sometimes does, the atmosphere of trot fishing, poker playing, whimsy, he amuses. But the amusement has the solidity and permanence of prune whip. Also one always realizes that prunes are the basic element in the concoction...
...personal element in collegiate journalism of the period is plainly seen in the printing of this article. In these late times it is not the fashion for the journals of the larger masculine universities to run special dispatches from their dainty neighbors, but in the Elegant Eighties the editors decided that news was scarce, and after all it was spring, and gave out bulletins calculated to cheer the hearts of their readers. The social revelation of Vassar follows...