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...Last Chapter of 'Smith's Decline and Fall of the World" suffers from an excess of imagination. Occasionally one finds vivid flashes, such as the incident of the last man and woman, but, as a whole, the conception is chaotic. Mr. Alken's sonnet, with its dramatic, almost conversational tone, is more novel than thoroughly effective. But the impression that it leaves of the rapscallion Villon is clear...
...Peck, in describing his ride up Pike's Peak at night, spoke of the rugged beauty of this mountain, which is over 14,000 feet high. At the top an unusual view may be had of the deep abysses and chaotic masses of rock strata below...
...With the facilities to produce the best coaching staff of any university in the country. Harvard in the past has obtained little but a chaotic result. There are so many football men of worth around Boston, who are eager to be of aid to Harvard football, that the coaching force has simply been swamped with men, and the results to the player and to discipline have been to say the least, unfortunate. We do not want to return to the days of two men coaching by themselves, nor does Harvard want to get along, as some universities do, with...
...large number of slight injuries which have kept many of the men out of the practice for several days, and, again, the difficulty in selecting the men for several positions were causes which have produced a chaotic condition in the line-up. The backfield may now practically be said to have been determined upon as Marshall, Nichols, Hurley and Schoellkopf. Nichols is most brilliant in running with the ball, but is inclined to individual play; of late he has fumbled with dangerous frequency. Bowditch and LeMoyne or Clothier have been picked for the end positions, and LeMoyne is doing...
...religion, beliefs and practices of the College in 1800 were in a chaotic state. Among the students religious feeling was weak and compulsory chapel was enforced by lines. Among the authorities there was a radical movement toward Unitarianism...