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...Geology, Classical Civilization, and Elementary, Economics, indiscriminately. Each, if marks are kept up--it really doesn't matter how--will turn into credits. Credits mean a diploma. A diploma means education. That a certain amount of education is good, America, swarming with packed universities, home-study courses, and five-foot book shelves will testify. Under new systems actual study seems to be increasingly demanded. The student is willing that it should be so, provided not too much time is required. Education must be kept in its place lest it should become confusing...
...sounded because Lacey is brilliant at any position and Guinness had been playing splendidly. Also, the Englishmen were saying that this time they knew they were not outmounted-they had brought along better ponies than any previous British team. On the American side nothing sensational had happened. Five-foot one-inch, 175-lb. Eric Pedley of California had made No. 1 as everyone expected him to-the first westerner to get on an international team. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. was at No. 3 where he could not be expected to make as many goals as he used...
...when playing lean, impassive George Voigt, best iron-shot maker of U. S. amateurs but a short driver, whose amateur standing was once questioned by the U. S. G. A. on the suspicion that he was giving golf lessons to his Washington, D. C. employer. Jones missed a five-foot putt on the 8th, another at the 10th and cut his drive into a whin at the 12th. Voigt was two up. Here Voigt began to slip. He drove out of bounds and lost the 15th. At the Railway Hole he played into Principal's Nose, famed bunker. Suddenly...
...soon attain to virtue, Each man respecting himself; For no one can hurt you--They'll not disconcert you--If you sleep on a five-foot shelf...
...This one was a Methodist, and he wanted us 'to look to the hills for wisdom,' and here we went and nominated Charley Curtis from the plains of Kansas, where a five-foot ashheap would constitute a precipice...