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First, Harvard's position in the intercollegiate world must be clearly understood, and it is a peculiar position that has grown up from the fact that Harvard, together with a small clique in the east that includes Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Pennsylvania, were the pioneers in intercollegiate athletics. These schools were the oldest in the country and they were the first to establish athletics on a plane in any way comparable to the present highly organized system of university sports...
...regrettable fact, however, that in the South as elsewhere there will always be dusty coves into which the new message--grown a little stale in the East by now--will never penetrate. There are houses where a copy of the Mercury has never been seen; where mint juleps are still to be obtained, but where, on the other hand, the residents have felt not call to assassinate their paster. There may be found the works of Joseph Addison, a social critic who wrote as a gentleman for other gentlemen, and who will be read is such dark corners long after...
...family was so excited that after "questions and answers" were over she found herself sitting on top of the back of a chair, feet on the seat. (A grown...
...This novel opens when Haeckla (heroine) has just picked a jonquil. She has been trying for days to pick up and read the manuscript of Shadows Waiting, a novel sent her by Dennis (hero). The fact that the jonquil was a bud when the manuscript arrived, and has now grown to be a great big jonquil reminds Haeckla that several days have passed and she must hurry up and read whatever it is that Dennis has sent her. On p. 7 she unwraps it. On p. 93 she gets down to reading it. On p. 180 she has finished. Then...
...might well say that a biography of this grizzled and vigorous octogenarian would include the origins of all the major scientific inventions of the last half century. Only when his achievements are recorded do his marvelous ingenuity and ability become clear. The name Edison has grown to be synonymous with the new era, not only because of his actual results which abound in daily life, but also because of his remarkable character which has never admitted defeat and which is based on the fundamental qualities of all that is best in human nature. The younger generation offers its congratulations...