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...Shipping Board. Every thing he laid his hands on (except those ships) turned into money. He has a dynamo of a mind and bovine physical endurance to turn loose upon anything- from a luke warm bean factory to an all-night bridge game- and the current he generates is seldom grounded. Small wonder that lately he has been able to let Lord & Thomas carry on largely under its own momentum, with a buzz from him; small wonder that, still well short of 50, he can sit back as chairman of the board in the big new merger and let Thomas...
...loyalty of Harvard men to Harvard is seldom more impressively evident than it is at the meetings of the associated Harvard Clubs. Any athletic event the Yale game football or baseball, for choice will call forth, in the nature of the case, a more concentrated and vociferous expression of Harvard spirit, but for eagerness and variety of interest in everything the University is joing, no other occasion rivals this annual guttering of the Harvard clans. The enthusiasm at the Chicago meeting last week was notable Confidence in the University, in President Lowell especially, and in the faculty...
Both the University and Freshmen crews rowed six miles downstream today. The stroke was seldom raised above a paddle and Coach Haines had no comment to make when his launch docked following the workout...
...upon the lips of the average Americanization worker, rings true as spoken by a Swede to members of his own race in this country. It stands out likewise as unique. In moments of extreme nationalism, nations have maintained spies in foreign lands to link emigrants to their abandoned fatherland. Seldom do they even now encourage complete expatriation. Ties of sentiment and race forbid. The lands of Europe have long regarded emigration as imperialistic energy gone to waste, and begrudged to the land to which their sons departed the fruits of their toil...
...abolition of roommates. At Oxford, only Americans and foreigners can be induced to share rooms. . . . The Oxonian reads alone in his study and freely discusses intellectual problems with his fellows. The Harvard man of today can find refuge from telephone, roommates and callers only in the Widener Library. He seldom discusses his reading with anyone and too often reads with the spirit of a clock-watching clerk-so many pages or chapters to be got through...