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...personal adornment? The urge for decoration moves both the European courtier and the dusky noble. The Capetown celebrity, who has seen the necks of native chiefs hung with alarm-clocks and frying-pans, may yearn with less avidity for the Order of the Garter or of the Bath. The gap between medals and tatooing is no greater than that between Picadilly and the jungle...
...took the baton from Tibbetts in time to start with a three-yard lead over Multer. A couple of bursts of speed in the last two laps enabled Chapin to hand a fifteen-yard lead to Cutcheon. Cutcheon ran a fast, steady six laps in which he widened the gap over Gibson. Haggerty, well known to local track fans, was cheered wildly as he rushed farther and farther ahead of Laughlin, the Yale anchor man. He broke the tape in 8 minutes 5 2-5 seconds, a new Harvard-Yale record. Half an hour earlier the world's champion Georgetown...
...also recognized the fact that one of the greatest problems of the University was successfully to bridge the gap between preparatory school and college. He has therefore paid particular attention to the problems incidental to this transition. In the first place, he has sought the cooperation of schools a preparing their pupils for the change from school to college. He has also made the system of student advisers function efficiently for the first time, and he has inaugurated the system of writing to the parents of prospective Freshmen for personal information which will be of aid in the choice...
...mile (approximately 34 laps to the 5,000 metres). Willie Ritola, brother Finn, old rival of Nurmi, took the lead. At his heels came the flying robin's-egg jersey. Lap after lap the two circled, the field after them. Two laps from home Nurmi sprinted, left a gap of 5 yards, widened it to 10, to 15. Gamely Ritola hung on, his face twisted like a mask of torture, but this time Nurmi did not turn to look. Running like a sprinter who, throughout an afternoon's field sport, has traveled no more than 100 yards, Nurmi...
...transition from school to college, difficult at best, will prove to be too much for the stability of many Freshmen unless arrangements are improved for bridging the gap. Instead of being taught, as they were at school, almost entirely by recitation, the Harvard Freshman is to a considerable degree taught by lectures. Instead of working in a small school library, he is expected from the very first to make at least some use of an enormous university library. Instead of being frequently tested on relatively small bits of information he is tested at considerable intervals on pretty large portions...