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John Anderson, New York Evening Post: "See it and creep...
...time necessary for delapidation, and worse, to set in college dormitories would be deemed impossible to any besides those who have witnessed it. Elevators originally described as "scaling the building and laden with cargoes of students" slow their flight until it is only with agony that they manage to creep to their destinations. And there are times when they cease motion entirely leaving the inhabitants of these imposing chateaus the privilege either of walking up the dingy, tortuous flights or of remaining below stairs. Therefore such lamentations as those from Middlebury are superfluous--for it is written that every...
...Falls are always imminent in a child's life, and the first creeping stage, before he has begun to stand or walk, is the time to begin teaching him to avoid them. Long before a baby can climb onto a bed or chair he should learn to get safely down. Whenever the mother happens to be handling the baby on a bed, for instance, she should not lift him down when she has finished, but should turn him over onto his little tummy, slide him gently backward until his legs hang over the edge of the bed and continue...
Although in the Columbia game Harvard held the lead with a score of 13 to 10 at the end of the first half, the second period saw Columbia creep up to a lead which was held until...
...their converted ship's lifeboat Wife of Bath he naturally found many such bits of rare Anglicana as the Martyr's epitaph above. Young Morley, like his columnist-novelist brother, is one of those for whom any river will wimple with apt allusion. Half the poets of England creep into Mr. Morley's book, a pat line or stanza from each. And he can himself do such sure telling bits as: "The first lock, by Inglesham Round House, holds two feet of water, of varnished and translucent brown?the brown of old sherry." Though we are here reminded that Elder...