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...strength of isolation. In ordinary men, isolation is a weakness. It is always a limitation. But coupled with a certain moral grandeur it is also a power. Senator Borah has that power. It is that rather than rhetoric which makes him the only orator of the Senate who can pack the galleries with people who come for the sheer glory of hearing him. Washington -cynical, politically overfed Capital -hangs, not on his words, but on the power of his convictions. In the Senate, Borah weighs, not because he is the leader of an insurgent group lake LaFollette, not because...
...with the center of its line. Captain Lovejoy is doing yeoman work at center, but he is flanked by inexperienced guards. The tackles have likewise been a disappointment. Luman and Bingham are probably even better than the Dartmouth pair. It is a certainty that the 70,000 fans who pack the Yale Bowl will see about the best exhibition of end play of the year. The Blue backfield can hardly match the Dartmouth quartet, Bench will be tried again at quarterback. He is a defensive player with few equals and an excellent line-plunger, but whether...
...Harvard Freshmen trailed Arlington High School 26 to 30 yesterday in the opening cross-country meet of the season, although A. H. O'Neil '28, former Exeter track captain, led the pack to the tape and won the individual honors for the Crimson. The meet was run over the three-mile Freshman course...
...knowledge that they pack into their brains is, in every reasonable cultural sense, useless; it is the sort of knowledge that belongs, not to a professional man, but to a police captain, a railway mail clerk, or a board boy in a brokerage house. It is a mass of trivialities and puerilities; to recite it would be to make even a barber or a bartender beg for mercy. . . . Honor does not go with stupidity...
Professor C. H. Moore chose Alaska as the place in which to spend his summer vacation. He travelled over the "great open spaces" in search of game, accompanied by guides and a caravan of twelve pack mules. He bagged a good many deer, bears and lynx--bringing back the antlers of one of the deer as trophies to revive his memories of the trip...