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...agree, is the handsomest man in the House of Commons. Endowed with a striking presence he is also gifted with a voice which carries without strain and which, although predominantly intellectual, can touch the heights and depths of emotional appeal. It is characteristic of the man that it is seldom so used. For MacDonald has nothing of the demagogue about him perhaps too little of the political orator...
...erected around his inner personality. The late Lord Morley knew him perhaps better than any other man--and Morley was a kindred spirit...Severely intellectual, kind and sympathetic, but unapproachable and never hearty, vigorously honest, passionately devoted to certain ideals, capable of an emotional appeal which was seldom employed--it is not strange that the two men should have been drawn together and should have had such a profound admiration for each other...
...eighteenth century England. Except that while in the latter case it often made for a homogenous Parliament of able if unscrupulous men, in the case of the Student Council it only produces a heterogenous body of undergraduates who, no matter how able in their individual fields, are seldom capable of even a normal performance of what should be the duties of Student Council members and who exert all their serupulosity to avoid anything so compromising as action...
Prizes and honors are seldom over-estimated by genuine men of science, and there are, of course, occasional cases of unrecognized genius in obscurity. But the scientific world usually knows its own divinities and strives to do them impersonal justice...
Hamilton adopted defensive tactics from the start of the second period, while the individual efforts of the Harvard forwards kept the opposing cage constantly under fire. The Crimson offense seldom slackened, and toward the middle of the period, Chase dribbled up the ice, flicked the puck to Beals, who was waiting in front of the cage, and the latter scored goal number three...