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...square, headed by officers of the University's student dueling corps in their dress uniforms: blue tunics, white breeches, plush tam o'shanters and spurred patent leather jack boots. Behind them came other students and a line of motor trucks piled high with books. More students clung to the trucks, waving flaring torches that they hurled through the air at the log pile. Blue flames of gasoline shot up, the pyre blazed. One squad of students formed a chain from the pyre to the trucks. Then came the books, passed from hand to hand while a leather-lunged...
...this spirit is due, certainly, to the factors which made the Smith Halls a notable spiritual unit among Freshmen, that is, to the compactness of the quadrangle, to the small number of inhabitants, and to the isolated position. But perhaps more significant is the term "social desert" which has clung to this seventh unit. Kirkland, to be sure, possesses a share of social climbers and lights; but unlike any other House, it possesses a stable bulk of population, a comfortable companionable middle class, which, quite without effort, finds itself a solid unit...
...make easier the difficult step between school and college. So-called progressives find much to criticize in the result; for there remains considerable old-fashioned iron in the Andover scholastic methods. Through all the fads and "isms" that have swept through America's educational system, Doctor Stearns has clung to the belief that the preparatory school is the place where a youthful mind must be toughened by obstacles and provided, if possible, with the rudimentary tools of self education. Experience has yet to disprove the validity of that faith...
...September Pavel and little Fedor went into the woods. A group of villagers, boys and men with long knives hanging from their belts, found them there. While the terrified children clung to each other, somebody made the first stab. The savage villagers cut their bodies to pieces, buried them under the pines...
...hundred and forty-three years ago a broken line of men and women marched over the hard cobblestones and sharp rocks of the highway towards a suburb of Paris. Thin rags hung about them for clothes, their shoes showed great holes, and the filth of a century clung to them like a disease. On every animal face there was a snarl and a sneer that represented the discontent of a thousand others, and the lines and hollows that only starvation can leave distorted their features. They hardly knew where they were going, yet they dreamt that each painful step they...