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...What is a Puritan?" With great emphasis we are told that the Puritan is "an iconoclast, an image-breaker". "Puritanism is an urgent exploring and creative spirit." It seems that Professor Sherman struck a snag somewhere. Would not his definition cover the men whose work he finds harmful to the formation of a real American literature? Cannot these writers insist that their "vision of the good life" is as adequate as that advance by Emerson and Whitman...
...preliminaries of the final and greatest case on the Harvard 1922 football docket were concluded yesterday with a parade that even surpassed the "record-breaker" mass meeting. Never have more Harvard men marched to Soldiers Field to cheer a football team in its last practice. The briefs, "We are going to win" and "We'll beat Yale" reflect unmistakably the attitude in Cambridge. And every Harvard man who is going to witness the trial tomorrow will support the team with the same conviction...
...they made great joy with suche a joyfull noyse that the paynyms without died to here it." The first half of the old bard's statement came true last night at the "record-breaker" mass meeting. To those who were in College a year ago it recalled, as Captain Buell said, the great meeting before the last Yale game...
...chance idea as motivators. Needless to say the problem it not solved; it never is. Nevertheless it is a good story. Mrs. Lake, wife of a railroad man, is the innocent victim of the Law (capitalized). Their troubles begin when her first lover turns out to be a house-breaker and she is convicted wrongly with him. She breaks her parole, marries Mr. Lake who is a crook hater,--without telling him the sad past. Obviously this is the best way to court an embarrassing future. It does not fail; she is arrested in New York after ten years have...
...transferring from other colleges, after a year or more of college work, which threw into the Freshman class 93 of the 175 men, who in previous year would have been listed as "unclassified students". But even without these 93 men, the Freshman class would have been a record-breaker with an enrollment...