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...world from its creation in a large and hearty manner and then continues in pleasant detail to recite further history including the Norse discovery of America. Maurice Baring's poems have been issued in a collected edition. E. A. Robinson's "Dionysius in Doubt" and Robert Hillyer's "Halt in the Garden" are well known and have been so well reviewed in the CRIMSON that I need add no comment. "The Pot of Earth" by Archibald...
...debating whether to roll up an obliterating tally or content himself with a moderate victory for the sake of many substitutions, must make Cambridge hearts glow with ghoulish glee. Yale may content itself with out-playing the Crimson, but Harvard will have the long awaited satisfaction of a superb halt to Yale's victorious rampage of the last three years; while Mr. George F. Gundolfinger will doubtless settle down to write another version of Why the Bulldog Is Losing Its Grip. The Princetonian...
...Second, Mr. Baldwin can say 'Let them fight out their own problems,' an impractical suggestion which would result merely in a test of endurance, and in the meantime, more unemployment and a complete halt in production...
...What does the Opposition amount to? What do we care whether they continue their boycott* or return to Parliament? What do we care for their impotent resolutions, their slanderous falsehoods, their hates? Do they really think they can halt our impetuous advance with their fatuous paper barricades? They will never succeed...
Still the men in the cab and coal car are oblivious. The warning whistle stops. There is a scream of airbrakes all along the train, an unseen hand shuts the steam throttle, the express comes to a grinding, jolting halt. The life it carries is safe. The conductor, trotting beside the ties to investigate, thanks his stars that the Chicago & Northwestern Railway installed its new automatic train control along that particular stretch of track...