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...well knows fact that this practice exists at Harvard on a smaller scale. Competition for the trade is a threat to the dignity and worth of the Harvard degree, an insult to the faculty for not knowing their students well enough to obviate the possibility of such thing, and an indication that students in American colleges today are not only willing to degrade themselves morally but are also willing to confess their unfitness for a college education...
...dangerous pair to the Crimson runners will be Molley and O'Connor, Holy Cross main-tays who finished sixth and seventh respectively last year. McHugh trailed Northrop in the yearling race and may also prove a threat...
...experience, he may never appreciate the excitement that pervades a fan at the inviolability of Warner Oland's person. He may never understand the smug smiles which accompany the first three or four attempts on the detective's life. He may never grasp the delight at the inevitable final threat, appalling as it always is. For we fans know that Charlie has only covered three or four cities in the world. This time it is Shanghai and a dope ring...
...intellectual and emotional passions that lift the characters of Joyce, of Proust, Mann and Dostoevski to more than human stature. In revealing how the "private" activities of men-their moods, love affairs, desires, plans-are influenced by such remote social and political developments as strikes or the threat of war, Romains has made an impressive and original contribution to modern fiction. And in keeping the first volumes of his masterwork prosaic and detailed, it may well be that the Frenchman is merely preparing the ground for the great climax that will take place when war eventually breaks and when...
...that time he proved himself a defensive back of the highest caliber, and showed that he, like Freddy Moseley, is a potential passing-and-running double threat. His absence at the beginning of this season was the heaviest loss the Harlow regime suffered...