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Although his charges failed to finish better than fourth in the Heptagonal meet Saturday, Coach Jaakko Mikkola could find no fault with his captain, as big Alex Northrop breezed through a 4; 16.5 mile to a meet record 40 yards ahead of a tired but valiantly sprinting Pete 'Bradley of the Tigers...
...when Oliver has ruined Livia, caused the suicide of Rory's beautiful sister, has shot down his friend Rory in the Irish revolution, and is himself hanged for murdering a cashier, the reader has the feeling that these disasters are not entirely the fault of the fathers; at least some of the guilt ought to be credited to the middleclass, middle-age, middle-of-the-road, muddled British morality of Author Spring himself...
...Inter-House Committee is not to be discouraged. The fault this year lies in the half-hearted way in which it has been advanced. That only two meetings were held during a year does not speak well for any committee. That the Committee did not take full advantage of its opportunities as an inter-House system is also a reason for its failure. The selfishness and jealousies of the Houses cannot be overcome unless the wouldbe supervisor is alive and respected...
Consequently, when an advisee refuses to see his adviser or to respond intelligently to lectures, he is spiting only himself; when a man graduates without once meeting a professor he admires or shaking hands with President Conant, it is his fault--to be blamed upon his lack of initiative. Going halfway with teacher, adviser, and dean is the obligation of each Freshman. Likewise, it is his duty to be useful in college, by contributing somehow to its life; particularly does it fall upon him to develop a practical social philosophy which will anchor his outlook on the modern world...
...thought of preaching on a text but I won't. I will only give you the text and I won't preach on it. I think I can afford to give you the text because it so happens -through no fault of my own-that I am descended from a number of people who came over on the Mayflower...