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...stupidity, dullness, vanity, and vexation of spirit?" Can a vivid and interesting book be at the same time stupid and dull? Yet the article shows the author an acute observer of literary matters, with a pronounced taste of his own. His chief fault is an excessive eagerness to appear grown up and sophisticated. He is grown-up enough to afford to be simple, if he would only believe it. Let him reserve mere cleverness for such amusing sportiveness as he exhibits in "Marionettes...
...which is disheartening to the loyal supporters of the Blue. It is truely, largely a matter of spirit. In Yale's athletic heyday, her democracy was her most cherished asset. There is now in Harvard athletics a democracy even more democratic than that of Yale. Yale may not have grown more aristocratic, as her critics allege. She may merely have stood still, while Harvard has passed...
...members of the CRIMSON staff have grown gray-headed in the pursuit of fleeting news for thirty-eight years, but tonight they hope to get the bigest scoop known to man and bear home the remains of a little "News" of a blue hue on a crimson shield. The two teams will line-up during the day o Yale Field, both confident of success, both full of determination, anticipation, and other things; and the battle that will be waged will be really royal. Special bulletins at the Union, Hemenway Gymnasium, and various resorts of sports and sportsmen in Cambridge. Boston...
...Annual College Men's Conferences at Northfield have grown steadily in popularity since they began twenty years ago, and last summer over 600 men from New England colleges gathered in the Berkshires for the ten days of intercollegiate fellowship, listening to practical religious talks by leading men of the day, and engaging in well-contested athletic sports. One of the most interesting features is the daily contact and acquaintance with men in other delegations Yale, Cornell, Williams, Amherst and others
...Oxford Press has had the longest continuous existence of any printing establishment. A press was instituted in 1478, but it did not come under the direct control of the university until 1585. Since that time its field of activity and its output have grown steadily. In 1830 its present large building was erected, which makes it the most self-contained press in the world, for all the paper, type, and even the glue and ink used are made within the plant...