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...assured to become earnest in public. His concern with men is not vicarious. It is the concern of a formalist who takes you among men to show you the shapes of their minds, their ideas, their words and how they use them, their manners and how men are revealed therein. Being vigorous and Irish, he walks close beside you, pointing here, there, with nervous, witty gusto. Being excessively sensitive and shy, he hides himself behind a mask of erudite satire whenever he is the least suspicious that your attention is not riveted on something or some one other than himself...
...fight. He asks permission to commit tauricide and, that received, next dedicates the animal to a portion of the arena, or to a lady, or to a wealthy patron, by tossing his hat into the stand. When the hat comes back, its owner is confident of finding therein some costly gift...
...Theodore Winthrop made a journey over the Cascades; nine years later, he described his journey in a book, The Canoe and the Saddle. Therein he said: "Mount Regnier, Christians have dubbed it. . . . More melodiously, the Siwashes call it Tacoma?a generic term also applied to all snow peaks." Therewith was engendered a controversy...
General Harbord in a long speech recalled the Spanish-American War, the reasons for which it was fought, and the great part Theodore Roosevelt, "for years beloved in a free Cuba," had therein played...
...Rhodes scholars in residence at Oxford each year number 96, two per state. They are elected from their states by old Rhodes scholars living therein, two elections coming in each state every three years. Last week, Dr. Frank Aydelotte, President of Swarthmore College and American secretary to the Rhodes trustees, announced the names of 32 appointees chosen from 507 candidates on the customary three-fold basis of "character, intellectual ability and physical vigor...