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YESTERDAY Rattle hired the steam launch at the Riverside Recreation Grounds. In trying to run the engine he scalded his face, burnt his hand and jammed his toe in the crank shaft. He says he never before realized the dangers of the naval militia...
...early life of Columbus there are no promises of genius about which so much has been said by some writers. He was what we would call today, a nautical and geographical crank, and it was mainly his own imperfections as a man which stood in the way of his early success...
...Walt Whitman and his Philosophy" is decidedly, with the exception of the last mentioned, the most interesting essay in the number. It was for some time the fashion to bring up young men either to consider Walt Whitman as a harmless crank or not to consider him at all. Lately, as we all know, public interest has been aroused in the man, and then, naturally, in his poetry. It seems to me that the writer is a little too enthusiastic over his subject; that a poet whose work requires such a deliberate course of study and investigation before...
...famous addresses. Pratt's origin and early history were not known to his student acquaintances. That he was a man of a good deal of natural shrewdness he often proved; but his mind was in some way unbalanced, so that he had become a harmless 'crank.' He boasted that he was the greatest traveller in this country; and certain it is that penniless as he almost always was, he was ever in motion, and after a week's stay at Harvard was likely to turn up at any moment at Washington or some more distant place. He was a self...
...pessimist, for a pessimist (according to the latest receipt) must be sadly cheerful, while he makes a very ordinary and unpoetic kind of a person out of himself by his querulous ways. Now for the coroner. He is sometimes a freshman, sometimes a grind, and always a crank. After a three hours' trial, he leaves the examination room, feeling, perhaps, well satisfied with his work. Soon, however, he meets A. and B., with whom he eagerly goes over the questions. He finds a dozen or so of his mistakes. After this he is hopeless. He throws himself upon his acquaintances...