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Judging, purely from the present situation, it would seem wise to consider the University as superior to the houses until the houses can be distinctive without being provincial. It is justifiable to utter a faint "Cave" against either the rabid pursuit of originality or the passive acceptance...
...insidious and cleverly written pieces of propaganda ever published in behalf of lewdness, promiscuity, adultery and unrestrained sexual gratification. . . ." Mr. Lindsey waited until the end of the sermon. Then when he thought that Bishop Manning was turning to leave the pulpit but when the Bishop really was turning to utter a prayer,* the judge jumped on a table and started a harangue: "Bishop Manning, you have falsely represented me. . . ." Plain-clothes men and ushers rushed forward, picked Mr. Lindsey up by seat and legs, half carried him out of the cathedral. Worshippers, enraged by his unnecessary interruption of their services...
There is also an unusually fine "Holy the evening will be an utter failure; accept the play in the spirit in which it was written and in the mode in which it is likely to be interpreted by undergraduates flaccid before skillful direction, and one is sure to find the "indulgence" ample fare. "Cake" may not cause the rafters of Brattle Hall to ring with unrestrained laughter, but there are certain to be wry smiles up Cantabrigian sleeves, as this or that familiar platitude is aired in the quaint garb which Mr. Bynner has provided. Like the three-year...
Completely do we coincide with these views, also your [his] forceful footnote. Such publicity will bring home to these, and other so called "Sportsmen," the utter contempt such butchers are held in by a vast majority, thus arousing the present apathy to our fast disappearing wild life...
...newspapers. One debates national affairs in college but one does not consciously prepare for a public career. One mistrusts oratory and is, in any case, incapable of it. The brothers La Follette of Wisconsin are incomprehensible exceptions. Most U. S. college men would blush to hear themselves utter the kind of thing contained in young Mr. Churchill's lectures...