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Bucking is not natural to horses; the poor wretches that are made to do so for the gratification of morons are so goaded and tortured that they hate the sight of man and become frenzied to the point of killing themselves, in their efforts to get rid of their abusers...
...pure misunderstanding. There are as yet few signs that the present administration really means to fill the Harvard faculty with men who devote their lives to the adverb in Tacitus or to the importation of bananas into Brittany during the sixteenth century, and none that it wishes to get rid of teachers who might follow in the footsteps of James, Norton, Babbitt, and their peers...
...offset that, however, my social popularity has increased as much as if I had learned to play the piano, gotten rid of halitosis, used Lifebuoy, or spoken to the waiter in French...
...Casey, Walsh, and Fesler have produced a frontier that would rate on any man's ball club. Defensively there was little to be desired--except in one fatal department. Of course Hobin is a super passer, but just the same, he was given altogether too much time to get rid of the ball. The Crimson ends were not getting into the Holy Cross backfield fast enough to bother Hobin...
...tried all the known diets to rid himself of nervous dyspepsia: vegetarian, raw meat, raw vegetables, nuts. milk. But he could probably subsist on publicity alone. It is meat and drink to him. He is not much of a businessman. In one breath he says that his publishing business brings him in more than the $10,000 salary of California's Governor. In the next he swears he has less than $150 in the bank. Fact is, the Sinclairs are still floundering in insolvency as a result of financing Director Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder Over Mexico, Upton...