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...they rise at 3 o'clock for lauds, and at 5 o'clock go each to his post: some to herd swine, some to cultivate the fields, some to clerks' desks. Each day has periods for prayer and meditation. To prior and sub-priors they owe utter obedience...
...Senators made speeches (in Portuguese, the national tongue). Brazilian historians published essays. The Brazilian Jornal do Commercio, quasi-official daily, published an editorial rehearsing U. S.-Brazilian friendship, recalling that Brazil was first to recognize the Monroe Doctrine. The editorial also said: "Although we have always recognized what we owe to Europe and the necessity of our relations with the Old World, still we all know what we owe to solidarity of interests with the United States. We admire the North Americans and do not fear them, knowing that we are as strong a people as they...
Harvard, however, has been too consistently free from major injury of late years, and strikingly so in the season just passed, to owe her good fortune to the mere workings of chance. Few are the squads that can boast a broken finger as the most serious accident to any member during a whole season's play. But it is just this result which the Harvard system of training is designed to produce. Though the ninety minute practice established this fall contrasts sharply with the extended arc-lit sessions common in other institutions, the Harvard team was more successful than...
...many persons with a distinct distaste for Harvard concerts manners. Five o'clock in the afternoon is late enough so that most of the audience should not be prevented by academic activities from prompt arrival. Other occupations may actually detain a few but the large majority at these recitals owe a discourteous and noisy tardiness to nothing more serious than pre-prandial intertia...
...this year to linger long in the memories of those attending. But from the very privilege which is extended to the audience proceeds a peril. Thoughtful only of their own comfort the undergraduates who are expected to fill the living room this afternoon may overlook the fact that they owe a whole hearted support to the men who have worked all fall to make this afternoon possible...