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This book, gotten out under the auspices of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, containing many of the speeches and writings of Thoodore Roosevelt, happily draws no conclusions such as "here was a man" or "read ye, and by your reading increase in stature." The compiler, Mr. Hermann Hagedorn, wisely contents himself with the selection and arrangement of his material. The result is that the book gains power thereby, and at the same time flatters the reader that he will draw the right inferences from the text without any additional urge from without...
...radium treatment are so far the only proved remedies. Progress in the latter methods has recently been rapid. But the rub lies just in the fact that the malady is seldom discovered until it is too late when the lawless growth of the cancer cells has gotten a fatal hold on the healthy tissue...
...pocket. East wood noticed he had on high white sneakers. The man volunteered the information he was a Harvard student and said "I was tired of studies and wanted to take a day off". He added that he had left Boston early Thursday morning by train and had gotten off at Auburndale, whence he had worked his way to Framingham. He said he was going to Albany to return immediately to Cambridge on his arrival...
They are returning to where Leonardo started, armed with the knowledge of the atmosphere, of air currents, air pockets, waves and equilibrium which he lacked from never having gotten more than ten feet across the earth in his disappointing struggles. The principle of the glider, Leonardo's principle, has been developed to such an extent that a man is able to stay in the air for three hours at a time. To do so he has nothing to depend on except his understanding of currents and his "feel" of the air. Without the knowledge gained by machine-propelled planes...
...regular first crew: single sculling, which will begin on April 2; spring football, which will also begin on April 2: lacrosse, starting at once; handball at the Hemenway gymnasium under the direction of Mr. R. M. Oxmun 1G.Ed., beginning April 2; track, open now; interdormitory baseball, which will be gotten under way as soon as possible by S. H. Chase 21., who has been coaching the Freshman basketball team; swimming, which will now be open to all Freshmen under the instruction of G. H. Sibley 3L.; tennis, to commence as soon as possible under J. B. Field 3L, and soccer...