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After the first shock, the crew settled down very quickly. The envelope was dented along its whole length, the bow was hanging in shreds and there was danger in the fierce wind that it would rip still further. Men went aloft in sailor style, lowered a rope ladder over the bow, gather up the loose ends of the flapping cover and bunched them , together. They made untidy balls but prevented the fabric from ripping further. In the first burst of the gale, the ship traveled stern first for many miles, rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water...
...young plants, they are building up their world from within and getting themselves adjusted to it just now, they are browsing about, picking up a precious bit of truth here in a lecture, there in a book, or yonder among their fellows. Our job is to give them a shock now and then and stimulate the endogenous development that each one must supervise for himself. That is all we can do, and when we try to do more, we hinder the process...
...Harvard students with literary ambitions English 5 has for years been regarded as the one course which had to be taken to put the last formal touches to their native genius. After the shock occasioned by the announcement of Dean Briggs' forthcoming departure had given way to feelings of confirmed tragedy, embryonic literati who had hoped to take this advanced course in English composition began to murmur: "What is to become of us? Is English 5 to be no more...
...Henry Smythe, executive secretary of the Benjamin Franklin memorial committee of the New York Sons of the American Revolution, has asked the President and Fellows to investigate Benjamin Franklin's contribution to the science of electricity. The famous experiment of the key and kite, resulting in the only shock of Franklin's life, is even doubted by incredulous scientists. Such belitttling of the school-boys favorite picture of Franklin "defying the lightning like Ajax Telamen", should certainly be investigated, even though a disastrous precedent...
Head Coach R. T. Fisher '12, of the University football team, was perhaps in a better position to know Mr. Camp than any other man at the University. On hearing the news of his death he made the following statement: "The death of Walter Camp comes as a great shock to all lovers of clean sport. His place in football will be hard to fill for he, above all others, has been the guarding influence which has kept the game up to its present high standards of sportsmanship. His methods and principles are ideals which every football man strives...