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...might have been tempted to question his initial premise of Harvard-Yale rivalry two years ago or one but not in December 1928, with the recollection of a glorious afternoon in the Bowl still extremely new. Dartmouth is in town and now and then gets scalped and the joy of the University still does not overstep too far the margins set by indifference. But fifty years of opposition more than half of them alternately as host and as guest, have set a unique seal on Harvard's meetings with Yale...
Nevertheless one doubts the absolute permanence of the seal. The glorious afternoon is after all only a memory College spirit takes its bumps periodically; and underneath this periodicity there is clearly a proportion to that scorned symbol of Rotarianism, Success. The appeals of an infuriated group of cheer-leaders waver feebly when the last white line is ninety yards away. There is no entity less abstract in its origins and manifestations than college spirit, and why it should be symbolized and paraded as a Platonic soul-affair, or a causeless hatred in perpetuam, is a mystery...
...scenic grandeur the perpetually snowcapped peaks of Ecuador easily eclipse the Swiss Alps-but only hardiest humans have ever glimpsed Ecuador's grandest vastitudes. Historically the city and the civilization at Quito antedate Columbus and hark back to glorious Inca times. Politically the Republic of Ecuador has been unfortunate. President after President has seized office by violence. Eleven Constitutions have been adopted. Today President Isidro Ayora knows that he is at the beck of an aristocratic and military dictatorship, headed by the potent General Gobez...
...series of 20 paintings so enormous that Alfons Mucha, the artist, has been as busy with stepladders as with lexicons. For more than 18 years the work has been under way. The subjects range from earliest Slavic history to allegorical, exuberant prophecy. Sages, religious leaders, rulers appear in glorious pageantry. The most magnificent picture of the series, a canvas as large as the façade of a sizeable barn, depicts the liberation of Russian serfs by Tsar Alexander II in 1861. In a grey, snowy twilight a crowd of the poor are gathered in Moscow's Red Square...
...There are rare moments in sport when a game becomes more than a game; when chance permits a climax beyond the ability of art, to arrange a climax remote from the pattern of the game and in itself glorious or sad. Such a moment occurred last week at the end of the football game in which Notre Dame played against the Army...