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...generous idea of the late Professor Schefeld and to the hospitality extended to me by the University, I was in a position to participate in your college life. I have been, for the past four months, one of you. More than ever before I have come to understand the moral and social value of some of your organizations--too scarce in Europe--your clubs, your societies and a Union such as this, in all of these organizations you cultivate that fine flower, "the Joy in Work...
...victory higher than the cup and title. It will put another chapter in the records of American sportsmanship. The dogged determination which the American golfers displayed was as great as the traditional dogged determination of the most determined Englishman. Although one may still be so benighted as not to understand the meaning of "stymie" or "birdie" or "chip shot", neither Briton nor American who has heard the story of the contest will withhold a hand of sincere congratulation for the victorious team...
What is his quality? What is this element of greatness? To meet Mr. Broun is to understand, partly at least, his gift as a writer. Large, shambling, often ill at ease, kindly, yet with that curious detachment which marks those who are much absorbed in their own thought, he invariably impresses one by his childlike eagerness. This is the fundamental characteristic of a great reporter, I judge. The world, as it appears to him each morning, is a new world. Events come to him as great God-given phenomena at which he gazes not with the eyes of a visionary...
...Englishmen were told that there is a jinx lurking somewhere about Deal they would not exactly understand. What is this jinx? Simply an American colloquial alibi for consistent failure to win the title for over 20 years...
...total demand is known, it will not be difficult to divide the applications so that every man's minimum, at least, is filled, and as many of the maximum as possible, chosen not by lot but in the suggested order of priority. In this way each applicant will understand exactly what his prospects are; and by applying for two seats in group III, he will not be losing his chances of one seat in group I, in case the demand is so great that he fails to get his two. Furthermore, it is probable that many graduates would prefer either...