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...more serious is the fact that the Freshman class will continue to elect officers for whom there is no useful function. These officers will still fill the Jubilee and Smoker committees with their own friends and bask in the light of a prestige they do not deserve...
...among students to oppose conservatism; and those with conservative opinions, no matter how original they may be, are often regarded as the unthinking offspring of the upper crust, with opinions borrowed from their tycoon fathers. There is little glory for the young reactionary, while his brother "red" may easily bask in the public gaze merely by staging a demonstration...
...American victories, his confidence in the Government dropped to zero. In his last term he decided "the country could be ruled by boys for all he cared." He was now free to settle down abroad to complete his history, wait for relatives to die to solve his financial problems, bask in the attention paid him by Europe's greatest authors, but more particularly by pretty women, and acquire at last the warming conviction that he was the Roman Empire...
...worms but the average is 500 or less, paid for by worm dealers at the rate of 75? per hundred. In night digging the men wear dazzling electric spot lights on their foreheads, and have a slightly greater advantage over the quarry, whose custom is to bask on the surface in the dark. While the tidal mudflats, owned by the Government, show no signs of worm depletion, vigilant Maine has an anti-poaching law with a $50 fine for out-of-Maine worm poachers. Unlike oyster beds which require occasional reseeding, Maine's worm muds seem inexhaustible. But Maine...
...could understand today. Then he gave me goat's milk and blessed me; asked me to take his picture, and so I did. Thus endeth my great trip adventure of exploration, a sad failure. But tomorrow I go to Syracuse to whistle in Dionysius' Ear, see Venus Anadyomene, and bask in the memory of Plato, Pindar and Aeschylus...