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...meeting last night the slogan of "Yale can be beaten" swept through the crowd like an electric shock and aroused once again the old triumphant, spirit of "We'll beat Yale" Those who remember last year's march to the field and the determined optimism which surged through the University will not be absent today, for they are seeking a repetition of 1922. Those to whom the week before a Yale game is something new will recognize what the spirit of the University can be when Harvard with its back to the wall fights against Yale...
This sentence comes as something of a shock to the political neophyte. " Surely there are some honorable men in politics...
...Crile is known the world over not only as a super-surgeon, but as an incisive and original thinker in biology and social psychology. He is a foremost specialist in surgery of the thyroid gland. He has devised methods of avoiding surgical shock by a combination of local and gen- eral anaesthetics (nitrous oxide and novocaine) which he calls " anoci-association." He studied in Ohio, Vienna, London, Paris, and has won more medical prizes than he can stagger under. During the War he was a Colonel in charge of a base hospital. In peace time he is a professor...
...chagrin grows to dismay at the thought of what may be offered by those undergraduates who dislike Princeton. And when the enemies of Vassar take to interior decoration we must look to our shame. Furthermore such an insidious attack is scarcely fair to our friends at Cambridge. The shock to their morale when they see room after room defiantly denouncing their beloved Aims Mater will not quickly be forgotten. They will realize suddenly that we are no longer bound by the ordinary inhibitions and fears: it is simply that Yale doesn't care. The virility of the thing, the inherent...
...something of a connoisseur of the arts (a. t. w. r. h. b. k.). He knows the fragrance and the names of rare perfumes (a. t., etc., etc.). First and foremost he seems to me, in his work, at least, to be animated by one desire?the wish to shock...