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...feel competent to judge. In any case I suggest that those who are acquainted with Harvard men whom they consider to be snobs attribute the fact of snobbishness to the men themselves rather then to the college from which they were graduated. If there exists a wide-spread belief outside New England to the effect that Harvard College is a manufactory of snobs, the quickest way to remove hostility to Harvard arising from such a cause is to disabuse the popular mind of such a notion, and the surest way to do this is not by propaganda but by example...
...championship calibre. With the spread of the game competition has become keener. In the East the game is gradually being adopted by the larger college. The Naval Academy, Yale, Syracuse, and the University of Pennsylvania being the most recent ones to take the step. These newcomers have cut wide paths. In the South the "Middies" are classed with the best. In the North, Syracuse won the championship the first year it was admitted to the league and hopes to repeat this year. To the above colleges must be added Princeton, Colgate, Rutgers, and West Point, which are beginning the game...
...regard to the reports which have found wide circulation in college and city newspapers of the east to the effect that the University has accepted Tuesday, May 10, as the date for the triangular race between Princeton, Navy and the University, the crew management reiterated its statement that the University would not row on that date. No invitation has been received from Princeton for a race on that day, and should one be received it would have to be declined since the College Office would not consent to a trip in the middle of the week...
...most part the book is composed of fragments dealing with a wide variety of subjects, stray bits of Tolstoy an philosophy and opinion, little anecdotes, and casual impressions a gathered together with no attempt to make a unified whole. But through it all there runs the ever recurring effort of Gorky to classify Tolstoy and to determine if possible what manner of man he was. With the simplicity and unselfconsciousness of the Russian, Gorky bares his own soul in the hope that the world may see the effect that the great man made upon him. At times he believes that...
...that a section of the animal's skull, fifteen feet long, seven feet wide, and weighing three tons has actually been towed ashore by the finder, Mr. Garretson, the question has passed from the realms of tradition into that of comparative anatomy. Not long now, before science will have superceded the illusory myth with evident fact; and thus another of those fascinating Mysteries of the Sea sinks into the oblivion of the Known...