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...Thrilling Hunt for Pirate's Gold), all is frolic, action and fun. True sons of their parents, these-not a complex or a suppressed desire in a barrel of them. "And here, while the Rover boys and their chums are getting ready to give the girls a glorious good time, we will say good...
...Significance. This is what your boy really likes to read, out of all the world's literature, unless he's a prodigy, and what you liked to read when you were his age. Imagine a family library without at least one volume containing the glorious words "A cooky-prize," cried Dick Rover, "for whoever first sights the old school...
...Moon Calf, Eric Dorn? Who can enjoy the mirrors of his mediocrity? Who can revel in the garbage of his prurience ? It is human nature, moralists to the contrary, to enjoy a good s duction with Tom Jones or Roderick Random. It is human nature to picture yourself a glorious Ivanhoe or a clever Pendennis. It is not human nature to imagine yourself a nobody Babbitt doing any no-account and nasty business in any Middle Western babbitt warren. There is no vanity in futility and filth...
After a disastrous beginning the crew has progreased steadily and the three weeks at Red Top have not been spent in idleness. Yale, it is reported, has lost some of that glorious optimism which seemed so impressive when the crews moved to their training quarters, and Harvard has recovered from that midseason depression which wondered only whether the University had the worst or next to worst crew in the country. It is idle, however, to speculate in this way for the result must rest in the laps of the gods; they have divulged nothing but the promise of a good...
...completely lost, was an offense against artistry which contrasts strangely with the club's high reputation. With full respect to Dr. Davison's remarkable work, and to the talents of the men who took part, it must be admitted that the singing was the one disappointment in an otherwise glorious week...