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...ambition can be attained, a Senior Society. One is careful, particularly during his first two years, to speak only to the right people, and to avoid those of less prominent rank. Andover men, outnumbering those from any other school, place particular importance on this sort of thing and usually excel...
...English Parnassus which has a traditionally bucolic landscape, Authors Warner & Ackland have a modern liking for slow, casual rhythms, unobtrusive rhymes, which make their precise metaphors seem more surprising by contrast. They have the acute feeling for country sights & sounds at which Anglo-Saxon poets are supposed to excel: for them the air often seems
...formula in helping to perpetuate the popular but erroneous idea, carefully revived by Prosecutor Pecora. that the present John P. Morgan is the main driving force of the House of Morgan. Also according to formula behaved the Scripps-Howard chain of 25 newspapers. Their formula being "liberalism." none must excel them in excoriation of unphilanthropic wealth. Their lead hound, the New York World Telegram, soon turned the predictable "revelations" of the investigation into a "shocking" scandal...
...high school men, and at Princeton, where prep school men overwhelmingly predominate, the latter win the larger share of social and athletic honors. At Dartmouth, on the other hand, where public school graduates predominate, they suffer no inferiority in college activities. Scholastically, at all three colleges, public school men excel, a situation explained by the fact that most graduates of private schools go to college, but usually only the more intelligent public school...
...details that the editors of the Transcript excel. They immure themselves in a citadel on Newspaper Row which has the flavor of Lamb's India House. There the crisp First National Bank efficiency which characterizes the Boston Herald is not to be found, nor yet the cinematic evidences of Fourth Estateliness which earmark the Boston American as Hearst's. In the crumbly, musty, sooty, comfortable rookery, of the Transcript there is something that reminds the Vagabond at once of Mark Twain, of Horace Greeley, and of Beacon Street. Such a milieu creates an atmosphere most favorable to the production...