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...Then lusty young Cornell seemed to be eclipsing Harvard, Yale. Cornell students came from all over the world to sit at the feet of James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, many another great one. Cornell scientists won international fame. Cornell coffers overflowed with the wealth of Hiram Sibley, Henry W. Sage. To Cornell Willard Fiske gave books, money, a building for a splendid library. Cornell teams were invincible. Year after year Cornell crews swept the river at Poughkeepsie. Then it was no slur to be called "Cornell of the West." Into the 20th Century, under able president Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell...
Such exciting letters as only hopping-mad, cussing-mad Irishmen can write poured in by the mailbagful last week upon Dublin's brindle-bearded George William Russell, poet, painter, philosopher and sprightly sage, famed as "AE." As greatly beloved as any living Irishman, Poet Russell had roused the furies by a pungent critique* of Ireland's secret and romantic brotherhoods as they exist today. A tough old patriot himself, he finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object...
Amid general satisfaction that the Government could be depended on, Messieurs les Deputes adjourned for dinner after good naturedly applauding an unidentified voice in the back of the Chamber which cried: "Remember Anatole Frances sage of sages Jerome Coignard! He said: 'One of the greatest pleasures in life is to be found in emptying one's glass under the arbor, while playfully teasing the short-skirted waitresses...
...woman interrupts, one who knows the secrets of Nature, of Spring. The adolescents whom she comes to enlighten are still of undetermined sex. They mix happily, spontaneously, but Spring is the season for fertility, for recreation. The groups seperate, quarrel, play self-consciously for the first time. A sage appears, the eldest the clan. Face down he asks the bless of the earth and new energy comes seizes the adolescents, sets them to a surging crescendo of relent tom-tom rhythms...
Last August four physicians of the Russell Sage Institute at Bellevue Hospital, New York, announced after three months deliberation that Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson, Arctic explorers, had not harmed themselves by living on an all-meat diet for one year and ten days. Said the physicians: "In general, white men, after they have become accustomed to the omission of other foods from their diet, may subsist on an exclusive meat diet in a temperate climate without damage to health or efficiency." Said Meat-Eater Stefansson: "I am wide awake and am more aggressive in my work than...