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...taking them to an asylum in the wilds of America. President Jacobs believed that "the wish of 10,000,000 in the Southland" would be gratified could " their father and founder " be " located," brought to Atlanta, ensconced in a gorgeous mausoleum on Oglethorpe University's campus, " in the bosom of Georgia...
...young financier and by the happy invention of a new eyeglass clip that Mr. Pinney's shattered fortunes are providentially retrieved at the last moment. And it is also in large measure due to the little spark of pompous courage which continues to burn in his insignificant bosom. He is a contemptible figure, is Mr. Pinney. But he is not wholly ignoble...
...very large. She was huge in every sense, weighing much more than three hundred pounds and yet there was a singular grace in her form and her movements. Her limbs we of the girth of breadfruit-trees, and her bosom was as broad and deep as that of the great June of Rome, but her hands were beautiful, like a plump baby's with fascinating creases at the wrists, and long, tapering fingers. Her limbs eyes were hazel, and they were very brilliant when she was merry or excited. Her expansive face had no lines in it, and her mouth...
...communication advocates at least in part, has been tried and found wanting, both because men are unwilling to take an even chance of rooming next to the most uncongenial spirit in the class, and because experience has proved that being in the same entry does not necessarily make bosom friends of the inmates. The latter, or the new system which is to be tried, hopes to induce a number of the class larger than ever before to move into the Yard for its Senior year. This it purposes to do by allowing large groups to go together...
...Harvard and Yale to be regarded as the Cambridge and Oxford of America.- (1) Not in accord with Harvard's policy.- (b) By avoiding permanent relations this false notion would be removed-(1) Athletics would become more normal.- (c) Harvard comes to consider Yale as her peculiar rival and "bosom enemy."- (1) Less interest in recent Princeton game than in last Yale game, though as great a defeat.- (d) Such arrangements tend unfairly to raise the literary estimate of Yale,- (1) Yale gains in literary prestige by defeating Harvard...