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...following the impress of Harvard, grow up as a single scholastic college to which graduate and vocational schools soon attached themselves. At Harvard the college itself remained a college of liberal arts, and when its intellectual interests grew it burst the thongs of a prescribed, regular curriculum to run amok in an elective system which soon threatened the liberality of its standards in an avalanche of vocational courses, and in the graduation of men whose college career became a very limited and illiberal thing. To this Mr. Lowell became heir in 1909; from the first he announced his intention...
...terror. From motives now hidden by the centuries, the King of Portugal hit on a solution-he would send the rhino to the Pope. Happily he clapped the brute on a vessel bound for Rome. But en route the rhino, disdainful of King & Pope, provided its own denouement. Running amok, it battered through the hull, sank the ship...
...Hotel, small downtown hostelry. He walked into the room of an elderly acquaintance, Pito Gualto, stabbed him over the heart. He turned and stabbed Pito Gualto's nephew. Then Julian Marcelino, a slightly dazed expression on his small brown face, descended into the street and quietly, efficiently, went amok. Proceeding at an even dog trot, a knife fashioned out of a bolo (native blade) in each hand, he skewered an aged grocer as he stood in his store doorway, then an amazed bystander on the sidewalk, then three Filipinos in a row. People ran screaming in all directions. When...
...confused with Austrian Author Stefan Zweig (Conflicts, Amok, Joseph Fonché, Three Alastcrs...
...Aiken County, S. C., Farmer George Jackson ran amok, slew two of his uncles, an aunt, three cousins. He was convicted, sentenced to electrocution July 29. Last week 15 of George Jackson's surviving relatives petitioned Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood not to reprieve...