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...water in her back yard for an extraordinary purpose. It is a ducking tub for her five-year-old son. Every time he feels uncomfortable he jumps in, clothes & all. Mrs. C. does not scold. For that is the only way the boy can keep comfortable. He lacks sweat glands, which in normal people dissipate two to three quarts of cooling perspiration every...
...another son, an infant, who likewise lacks sweat glands. He is too young to go ducking himself. So she dowses him from time to time with scuppers of water. Neither child can sleep unless his night clothes and mattress are wet. They take daytime naps in their damp cellar, with moist sacks for pillows...
Campus dances are legion, and those who give them have to cope with the problem presented by the "roughs"--an ancient Stanford institution. "Roughs" are usually non-row or "hall" men who never shave, wear filthy corduroys and sweat-shirts, at least so goes the tradition...
Thus a pair of skis came to be associated with the popular idea of the "Dartmouth type" who was supposed to be traditionally dressed in corduroy trousers and a dirty sweat-shirt. But until recently those skis were more or less of a myth. Strange as it may seem to those brought up on the Dartmouth outdoor tradition, hundreds of men graduated from the college without knowing a telemark from a gelandesprung. Skiing was left to a comparatively small group of outdoor enthusiasts of the dyed-in-the-wool sort...
...Dickens lived today he would have written such things, had he lived a thousand years ago he would have winded East with a Crusade. Since he lived in the Nineteenth century he wrote about corruption in the High Court of Chancery, life in the London slums, death in the sweat shops. But he was a crusader at heart, and as such, his subjects have only a transient value. It is not what he said, but the way he said it, that men remember today...