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...Easiest Way" brought into prominence the mayor's power of censorship. Leaving out of consideration the wisdom of this particular prohibition, there can be no doubt that there have appeared, unchallenged, numerous dramatic productions calculated to feed on human weaknesses. Such plays as the "Follies" which excite the baser passions of mankind by their sensuous dances and flippant jests in regard to breaches of the Seventh Commandment and to drunkenness have been allowed to vulgarize and debase their audiences...
...would seem as if, the Faculty assumed in each man a certain Jekyll and Hyde dual composition of character. Those nobler qualities of the Jekyll side, desire to succeed; to master and to win are to be directed to the studies alone, while the baser Hyde characteristics, half-heartedness, hypocrisy of purpose and the famous Harvard indifference are to be exercised only on the sport. Isn't this a bit unreasonable? In a communication the other day by Mr. Derby we are led to believe that from those absences which occur at the end of a major sport season...
...ninth inning, and foolishly continued to play. Schoenhut had to ease up and as a consequence was hit hard for the first time during the game. In every respect Schoenhut pitched a fine game, besides scoring the first run for the home team, with a slashing two-baser. Paine struck out nine men and barring his wildness pitched very strong ball. The score...
...baser consolations, it is also one of the most disheartening concomitants of long life, that we get used to everything. Two things, perhaps, retain their freshness more perdurably than the rest,- the return of spring, and the more poignant utterances of the poets. And here, I think, Wordsworth holds his own with the best. But how much of his poetry is likely to be a permanent possession? The answer to this question is involved in the answer to a question of wider bearing,- What
...features of the game were a pretty double play by Lowell and Quigley, a running overhead catch by Phelan and Gillmore's three-baser...