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...child in New Haven this was akin to waving a flag. At a desperate moment for the Union in the Civil War--July, 1864,--Yale, instead of enlisting, rowed Harvard a furious race at Worcester before a large and excited throng. Like-wise, as Harvard took up the new games appearing in the Victorian period, Yale was out of envy forced to follow, and each time unsuccessfully. In their first baseball game, 1868, Harvard beat Yale 25-17. In 1875 one hundred and fifty students saw the Crimson defeat the Blue in their first football match...
...Door of Life is a middle-aged woman of the upper middle class, who is referred to throughout as "the squire." This in itself is likely to be a little confusing to U. S. readers, who usually think of English squires as ruddy, irascible old gents, more or less akin to Kentucky Colonels. So when they read about the squire picking up her sewing, putting on her evening dress and performing other distinctly feminine duties, their surprise tends to make them miss the point of Miss Bagnold's story. The squire, it turns out, is so called because...
...dreaming and fierce battling with other dreamers. When he finished his Studs Lonigan trilogy three years ago, admirers hoped he might get away from 71st Street and its overly pugnacious inhabitants. But when he began another and longer series of novels laid in the same neighborhood, with characters akin to the Lonigans, but poorer and more quarrelsome, it seemed that James Farrell was obsessed with the dreariness of life in the section where he had grown up. First volume of the new series, A World I Never Made, told of Jim O'Neill, a goodhearted, leather-faced teamster...
...with a feeling akin to veneration that I stand upon this historic spot, consecrated now for over 300 years to free scholarship," the Prince said, "Even judged by European chronology Harvard is an old university and its fame has spread after." After the reception the Crown Prince was conducted through the Fog Art Museum and the Peabody Museum
...silliest objections raised by his opponents." Far from his personal charm being fake, says Biographer Ludwig, it is the very key to Roosevelt's unique "destiny," of the greatest "symbolic significance for our age," the reason, in fact, that "the spirit of the biographer found itself akin to that of his subject." As here traced, the decisive fact is that Roosevelt was born of Hudson River landed gentry, thus naturally acquired simplicity of manner, a distaste for arrogance and showoff...