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...These menus showed that the service here was of the best, and that the food was fit for the palates of royalty. In fact it seems to have been the custom for the athletes to chew on thongs of leather just before a contest, and to eat quantities of raw meat after their exertions in the games...
...Photographs can not He" he said in basing his proof on the dozens of pictures of spirits in the shape of humans and in masses of ectoplasm protruding from mediums bodies "Ectoplasm," he explained, "is the raw material of psychic phenomena. Science knows nothing about it. When analyzed, however, it has been found to consist of materials which are present in the human body, and of something else, possibly other, as well as a material not known to exist in any organic substance. It dissolves in the light, hence it is necessary to conduct seances in the dark...
...back to the chemical simile, analysing the undergraduate in terms of percents, it is the individual quality that outbalances all the rest. If the college is a crucible into which is poured the raw product of heredity and environment, what is it that influences most profoundly the result which emerges after four years? Is it the crucible, or the elements which made up the original compound, or is it rather the reactions of the compound itself? Home, school, and college all contribute to the make-up of "that painful figure--the college man;" but in the last analysis none...
With six new squash courts at its disposal, the 1923 team will have a greater opportunity to develop its raw material for the long schedule that is now being arranged. The increase in the number of games to be played is largely due to increased membership is the Massachusetts Squash Racquets League...
...Junior class the A's have a representative proportion in the first three groups of the rank list over fifteen percent better than the Z's. Yet the raw, crude brain was never alphabetically alloted. The system creates alphabetical cliques. Instead of friendships formed by ties of similar tastes, lecture room friendships are made among men by letters. The only man to profit by alphabetical seating is the monitor; for the rest it is an abridging of the evolutionary right to freedom of selection. The German generals card-indexed the War; shall Harvard alphabetize instruction...