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Every word of the extensive title is draught with relevant symbolism. Sodium obviously is to be taken as representative of activity righteous, of course, Salt implies well seasoned matter. The stability of the benzene nucleus is well known to chemists, as are the cleansing properties of the napthols. Then disulphonic acid is suggestive of fiery rebuke to iniquitous actions. However, in the abridged forms, proposed by the Herald, much of this significance is lost. Only the complete title does itself justice; and only the complete title attains to a sonorous dignity. This objection is not vital, but years of experience...
...substituted as Third Horseman when Stevenson was lugged from the field unconscious in the first game. He, too, raised the cup, arrested it at his lips, passed it on to a sixth man standing by. The sixth man smiled, bowed, drank. After Edward of Wales, Stevenson had his draught...
...contrast, Henry Cabot Lodge came and went like a silent wraith. He seemed frail, apparently steadied himself by the desks, so that a sudden draught might not upset him. He paused to chat with this one, with that one, with La Follette, with Pat Harrison, and then retired to recline in the background with legs stretched out and jacket tightly buttoned...
...writer, in short, states one view of the function of college very clearly, a view which one fears is shared by many another reminiscent Senior. To them it is essentially a four year long draught from the bowl of information. But information is not knowledge, and knowledge can seldom be found in an undergraduate card-index. One might say that the adjustments which a Freshman makes whether in methods of study or more subtle ways of thinking, are a vital part of that carefully supervised development for four years which constitutes college life...
...first Dartmouth was probably given a date without any thought of its strength in relation to its proper place in the web and woof of the season. After several bad beatings it was relegated in 1891 to the humble position of season-opener. Then seemingly invigorated by its draught of bitterness, as other colleges have been likewise, Dartmouth began to give the University so much work that in 1899 it leaped up to a position next to the final Yale game and there remained until 1912. Some may perhaps thank that the prerequisite for such a position...