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...alert to increase his store. As far as modern tongues are concerned, his knowledge was not confined to books: he spoke German and French with admirable mastery, and was easily at home in Italian and Spanish. His English diction was a delight to his friends, who were always fond of hearing him read aloud...
Later, as the opulent proprietor of 15 dynamite factories located throughout the world," Mr. Nobel developed many whims unrelated to explosives. For example, he was fond of pictures yet tired so easily of them that he preferred not to buy any. An obliging Parisian art dealer accommodated him. Mr. Nobel might choose any pictures which struck his fancy, and the dealer would rent them to him until he grew irritable and called for others...
Theorists are fond of urging in defense of sport that athletics promote courtesy and fair play--certainly indispensable qualities in men of good breeding. Saturday's incident and similar cases by students of other colleges show that these benefits of sport do not extend in equal degree to all the spectators...
...delightfully humorous article entitled "The Divine Right of the Alumni", appearing in the current Independent, Mr. Frederick L. Allen '12 pictures a loyal alumnus cherishing a fond affection for an alma mater he no longer understands and blundering incompetently about without exercising "a cubic millimeter of his brain." There are many men who help to create alumni opinion in just the manner Mr. Allen describes, though such a portrait is more caricature than a likeness. Amusing as the picture is, there is always a basis of truth in satire; and undergraduates who later will swell the great body of alumni...
...dawns upon a lonely Yard. For John has gone a-calling. Where tall and Gothic towers rise collegiate toward the skies John will be found in sportive frolic with a funny old striped beast. Both John and the Tiger are fond of the game. Sometimes one has shown himself more apt, sometimes the other. But quite aside from the zest of battle, the pleasure of the meeting has perpetuated the annual interchange of courtesies through all these years. And so of course the day dawns upon a lonely Yard. For John has gone a-calling...