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...made my way into the main lobby of the hotel, I decided that the surest way to force people of this sort to feel my contempt was to use the place just as they do, in their absurd dress suits. Accordingly, I edged through the crowd gathered in the lobby to a man in uniform standing in their midst, evidently one of the higher flunkeys. When I reached him, I said in a clear, careful voice, "Call me a bell...
...bloodcurdling game played in this country--lacrosse. The players run far and wide--especially far and the sticks, which developed from Indian war-clubs, are still used for this primitive purpose. The organization in depth, instead of stabilizing the conflict as it does in ordinary warfare, merely causes a sort of harmonic motion up and down the field. This business goes on either until the war-clubs have accomplished their work, which happens very rarely, since American teams are provided with plenty of substitutes--or until the time allowed for complete exhaustion has elapsed. There is also a method...
There are few conventions of any sort at the University, and those that have survived the long sifting process deserve to be enforced. The tradition of the Cap and Gown is a worthy one to preserve. It has been bequeathed to scholars of the present by scholars of past centuries, and in spite of occasional rebuffs, such as the opinion of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the apparent disregard of Harvard Seniors, it is likely to survive for some time to come even after June twenty-first...
...third significant date is September 22, when the Coal (Fact Finding) Commission, created by Congress, goes out of existence. During its period of office the Commission has acted as a sort of chaperon for both workers and operators. Both sides have feared to be too unreasonable with the stern eye of the Commission over them. But what will happen when the chaperon goes home? That is a question which only the future will reveal...
...very dead town indeed, but his discovery of the Government caused him to change his mind. There was opportunity there. The Government, he saw, had oceans of money to spend, and, being a Government, it was a good deal easier to take money away from it than from any sort of private business, if you were clever and tactful. He decided he must have his finger in that golden...