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...Seldom has the twentieth century seen so remarkable a growth in popularity of one particular sport as in the case of squash racquets. Ever since the war, this youngest child of battledoor and shuttlecock has been gaining adherents until now it is rated as one of the most popular games being played in England. Perhaps the fact that the Prince of Wales is a devotee is partly responsible for the huge attendances at the twelve tournaments which are held annually in England. And women have accepted the sport with an enthusiasm which women rarely evidence in person al athletics...
...Seldom has the general tendency of mankind to view with alarm been so vividly pointed out. One feels less, doubtful concerning national standards of 1926 when one knows that in 1827 people were writing such things us-- "a glance at our country and its present moral condition fills the mind with alarming apprehension." The jazz age has nothing on the age of crinolines and Jenny Lind. It will cheer the public to be apprised of its ancestors' wickedness, for the immobile faces in the family album become more human when their foibles are proclaimed...
...several days ago, according to J. F. Brady, janitor of the dormitory, and examined the clouded corridors, the mauve bed-spreads, and the soot-stained porticos of the dormitory. His attitude was non-committal but he ventured the statement before leaving that ordinances against soft-coal smoke had been seldom enforced since the recurrent coal strikes of the past few winters. He has not been seen since...
...diagrammatic sketch of the joints of the human body interpreted in terms of the joints of machinery lay puritanically before the reader on one page. On an-other the seldom depicted organs of the male and female were similarly diagramed and explained. Drawings with nondescript. people in them much like those used in Popular Mechanics and the Radio Digest were employed to give "human interest" to the explanation of what are, after all, "mechanical" if "living" organisms...
...expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...