Word: embalming
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...most popular attempts to define the undefinable is the age-old effort to embalm the amateur spirit in codes of black and white, but anyone who saw Saturday's game, although the words may still not come, knows now and will never forget what that spirit is. Saturday's game saw the triumph of the amateur spirit over the milk diet, and sports writers will be busy all week comparing it to the battle of the Marne, to Thermopylae, to whatever overworked allusion they can conjure up to the triumph of bare courage in the face of overwhelming odds...
...Norman Fradd will don white knickers, to add realism, and under the stare of these sartorially perfect referees the three Varsity teams and the Jayvee eleven will stage two real games. An added touch will be the presence of Cambridge's star cinematographer atop a new scaffold, who will embalm the efforts of the heroes in celluloid, to facilitate future fault-finding and correction...
...lavish in their descriptions of unmoneyed young men who have earned many thousands of dollars in the course of their college careers, have become class officers and have merited Phi Beta Kappa. Almost every college, of course, can boast of a few such men in its history, and can embalm them in catalogues for the enchantment of the yokelry. During prosperous years men attracted by their example have been able to survive, to balance precarious budgets and to secure their degrees, but at present the Lorelei have left many stranded upon the inhospitable rocks...
...long nosed, toothless, petulant. A few years later, harassed by his insubordination, she signed his death warrant. Alternating between vicious whim and heroism, no admirer ever brought her a full, rich, personal love. When she died, no man's hand could, by her will, touch her body to embalm...
...editors of college literary magazines edited and wrote for their readers as, for example, the editors of college comic magazines do, their creations would have vastly more vitality and probably just as much, if not more, literary merit. The aim of the editors should be not merely to embalm choice literary productions, but rather to stimulate discussion, to contribute definitely to undergraduate intellectual life...