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...University rocked Chicago with fires and yells last week by way of asserting that their team has won the championship of the Big Ten conference. They base their claim on the fact that Northwestern (beaten by Notre Dame) has won its other games by bigger margins than Michigan. They forget that Michigan (beaten by the Navy) had the harder schedule. Chicago, Iowa and Indiana went through the season without winning a single Conference game. Brown played three games with the same eleven men. The Army-Navy game (above) set a new record for attendance. New York University had the best...
...shaped, green New England shutters on p. 408. The collection of cobblestones, sealskin sacques, decalcomanias, bustles, buggies, political platforms and gimcrack customs, all echoing to the tinkle of bicycle bells and chandeliers, is truly remarkable. In fact, it is so remarkable that the exhibitors' enthusiasm made them somewhat forget their narrative obligations. The ingenuous characters are gently regarded as being almost as odd today as were (allegedly) grapefruit and golf to oldtime Chicago...
Peace Hopes, 1914. "I could not forget that half the world was afire, and I could not assent to the President's view that the War was one 'whose causes cannot touch...
...shown that the officials of the American Federation of Labor are traitors to the trust of their comrades are reactionaries who do not lead but mislead the members of the trade unions. It has shown that the time is ripe for he workers themselves to organize and forget the differences in their trades, religion and nationalities...
...excellent piece of work. It is a good example of interpretation, and conveys the real sense; it is graceful, keeps an even flow, and does not worry one with false modernism. It makes one forget that it is a translation--J. St. Loe Strachey, in the London Speculator. 4 volumes...