Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of the schedules is, of course, always with us. Quite naturally there is some feeling at Yale and more particularly at Princeton that the present system gives Harvard, with two weeks between its major games, an exceptional and unfair advantage. But Harvard and Yale have always refused to consider any system which did not bring the season to an end with the traditional contest between the Crimson and the Blue. On this rock have foundered all the plans for rotating schedules and the like. However large some particular game may bulk in any specific year the contest with Yale...
...human document." Having thus damned it one must hasten to award to it a very high degree of praise. As the unknown author points out, those who have given the South Seas their vogue in the literature of the day are essentially visiting journalists; nor does he except R. L. S. This book, on the contrary, is made up of a series of letters addressed to a friend, Mr. Bohan Lynch, which cover a period of some nine years during which time the author was supporting himself in the New Hebrides, and later in Papeete, as a trader, painter, government...
...certain extent an illustration of how stupid the sue of mechanical rules alone can be. The baccalaureate sermon, on the other hand, is replete with dignity and yet grace; while the prophecy of the next hundred years is filled with almost poetic fire. Almost all through the book, except in the inaugural address, there is a lilt to the words that is akin to the Homeric. And throughout there is a vividness of picture and choice of words...
...thousand years and more the political chess game of Europe has been conducted on certain very definite rules and principles. And except when a people rose in its wrath to hand "les aristocrats" to the lampposts, they changed not at all. But the cataclysm of 1914 destroyed traditions of play as of rank. With the disintegration of political parties after the war, Europe has been dominated by individuals. By sheer force of personality Mussolini has gathered a national following, and Herr Hitler has apparently attempted to follow that precedent. Premier Poincare appears to be the government of France, as Lenin...
...Jeaves no doubt as to what he its be terms himself a dramatic realist. His works show the effects of his reading of Plato, for be desires that every one be made an aristocrat. He maintains that education has little to do with the matter of acquiring table manners, except dress, and that outward show which aristocracy presents. Every one should acquire these attributes according...