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Most respectable memoirs are dull: this one is no exception. Abundant with annotation and anecdote, Mrs. Hardy's work is a boon to Hardy scholars, a bore to lay readers. Only relieving element in the volume is the biographer's charitable lack of sentimentality...
...last month of preparation for general examinations, there is also the unfortunate necessity of carrying regular course work. The system which now obtains in the literature departments allows only those who secure honor grades in divisionals to be exempted from final course examinations. But even this intended boon comes too late, for only after the period of stress is over, may one hope for the empty favor of exemption from finals which are already half prepared...
...health resort, could by itself cure or relieve any large proportion of these sufferers, but it could be of service to thousands. I do not like to see a stone put in the path of those who are endeavoring to accomplish what I think will be a great boon to the chronically ill, and at a cost that is not comparable with what is going to be spent upon new prisons for our criminals...
Superficially, at least, the games are quite different. True, the same kind of ball is used, but the men play in track suits and not in padded armor plate! Furthermore the total playing time is considerably longer, and the time out is very much less--a boon to the spectators...
...boon to Newport-bound socialites is the new bridge. Long have they had to cross to the southern peninsula on a slow, chugging ferry, instituted in 1680, onetime carrier of Washington, Lafayette, Rochambeau...