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...against vers libnre and all that sort of thing. Of course I admit Walt Whitman was a very great man; but I insist that metre is not an unnatural thing, but an extremely natural thing, like the sing-song of a child, you know, kicking his heels against a wall...
...opposing linesmen to determine whether the offence could provide a human slide on which to project the man with the ball for 1 and 67-100 yards on each down; or whether on the other hand the defence could upset this human slide and turn it into a human wall against which the alleged runner would be hurled in vain by his team-mates. The result of the plays would have been exactly the same if the runner was on wheels...
...easy flow of Lampy's pages, effectively blocking all but the persistent, in location of a final page of mirth cheered by two excellent drawings. Make-up makes or breaks a woman, depending upon a man's taste, and Lampy cannot afford to hide its charm behind an impenetrable wall of adds...
...football out of her system and learned lessons which will not permit of the repetition of these errors in her final game of the season; that the individuals including substitutes who will face Harvard today are superior physical specimes, possessed of power and determination, with their backs against the wall, with everything to win and nothing to lose, and that the likelihood of a wet field is a more serious disadvantage to the team with the more highly developed offense...
...their minds really grow. And they must live together in a rational and comfortable way. They must eat in a big dining room or hall, with oak beams across the ceiling, and the stained glass in the windows and with a shield or tablet here and there upon the wall to remind them between times of the men who went before them and left a name worthy of the memory of the college. If a student is to get from his college what it ought to give him, a college dormitory, with the life in common that it brings...