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...many institutions.* Returning students registered, shook familiar hands, laid in various supplies, strolled off to investigate their new courses. Excited matriculants, reported everywhere to be in record multitudes, explored their surroundings, asked questions, herded into chapels and auditoria to be welcomed by deans and presidents. Deans and presidents brought forth sheaves of notes and speeches, expounded aims and ideals in terms occasionally selected with an eye to arresting the world's attention as well as shedding light and inspiration upon undergraduate audiences. At Hanover, N. H., Dartmouth College, now 154 years of age, opened with the announcement that compulsory...
...order, therefore, that this happy event may bring forth, in the souls of all, worthy fruit, privilege we of grant to blessing you, those our beloved present in son, our the name and of proclaiming a plenary indulgence on the most solemn day of this reunion under the usual forms and conditions...
...pleaded for the conservation of helium gas for use in dirigibles. He also foresaw a day when whole flocks of airplanes, guided by radio from a distant plane, would go forth to bombard enemy cities...
...Chapter entitled "Why England Appears to Be Behind America" sets forth that Englishmen take too great delight in pounding colossal tee-shots, neglecting the rest of their game. Americans, intent upon complete mastery of whatever they take up, hold themselves in to "an old man's game" off the tees and "evoke admiration by their daring and skilful shots up to the flag." Americans take golf intensely, says Tolley; they spend more time and money on it, have orthodox professional stylists after whom to model their games. Not so the English. To them it is only a game...
...Ardmore, Pa., 166 able performers flocked forth upon the sward of the Merion Cricket Club course for the banner event of U. S. golf?the national amateur championship. There were 17 British subjects, four Canadians, the champion of Panama. Out came balls, off sailed drives, in came qualifying scores...