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While this is not, strictly speaking, over-emphasizing the game, it is indicative of the fact that football has attained so commercial a tinge that prospective matchmakers have to start looking for opponents three years ahead of time. It is not the fault of the Harvard athletic authorities that they have to arrange their schedules so early; it is rather the fault of conditions universally present in college football combined with a faculty ruling that limits the number of games played away from the Stadium by Harvard teams. All colleges are making football agreements with one another now and unless...
...added an almost pathetic feeling of futility and remorse that must come from a life occupied with only intrigue and statecraft. His gestures were particularly eloquent in this respect, usually managing to convey a thoroughly adequate impression with the smallest motion of the hand. There was but one fault, and that is that death laid a very ostentatious hand upon him at surprisingly frequent intervals. The fact that one got a slightly muddled impression of the character of the Cardinal; not being sure whether he was an absolute institutionalist, or verging perhaps on sentimentality was a fault of the author...
...sweeten the bitterness of a thousand quibbling opponents. For the woman who is a conscientious helpmeet, however, there are innumerable trails and duties without the prospect of direct self-satisfaction; the pleasure of success can be for her at best only a reflected glow, while the darts of the fault-finders penetrate her as deeply as they do her husband...
...hell first. ... Do you suppose I enjoyed seeing my life-work made trivial and ridiculous? I was an inventor ?it was my passion to use the tools of science for the service of mankind. I gave the world light?good light, cheap light. Is it my fault if they used it to outrage the beauty and peace of the night. ?to make a cheap bazaar out of every street and avenue, selling one another cigarettes and chewing gum at the rate of a million candlepower a minute? I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman...
...comparatively new but increasingly comprehensive category of sound-cinemas. Its story is insipid and a lot of its talk ridiculous, but it it so well-made, its sets are so pretty, and its people so competent that within the scope of its intention it is hard to find fault with it. Even in its worst passages it provokes only that mild comfortable sort of boredom which is sometimes pleasanter than entertainment to people who want something to do between dinner and bed. There is a master criminal named Malatroff who classifies his subordinates by number, and is interested in procuring...