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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University baseball squad of twenty-two men, together with Coach Slattery and Pooch Donovan, and three managers, will leave tonight on the Federal Express on the annual Southern training trip...
...views on life after death vary in degree from the tenets held by the absolute agnostic to the painted heaven and fiery hell of the hide-bound theologian. The great obstacle to any scientific discussion of the question is terminology; Sir Arthur is necessarily handicapped by attempting to express spiritual theory in material fact-words. It is about as difficult to use a rather paradoxical analogy, describing a football game in the language of integral equations. But whatever the wordology, there are some who are violently opposed to any idea of life after death; if these people thought there really...
...colleges, boys who cannot see what they look at and cannot listen to what they hear; who have no background of general information against which to place what they do see and hear; who do not know how to work or read or study or think; who cannot express themselves with precision or confidence in speech or writing; to whom a library or other collection of the treasures of human knowledge and experience are places of impenetrable mystery...
...orientation of the individual in the field of knowledge is not all that can be accomplished by English A, although it is perhaps the greatest single thing. The ability really to perceive is an elementary requirement, but it is developed only by conscious effort. The ability to express ones self clearly is not so common as is generally inferred; back of it there must be some clarity of thought processes, and anyone who has argued with a stubborn and illogical opponent will hesitate to say that such clarity is universal. And the last point, that of knowing...
...novel one and comes out of an apparently clear sky, yet there is much to be said in its favor. Unquestionably aviation is capable of far greater development both in war and peace; and to judge from the "London-Paris parlor planes" and the proposed New York-Chicago express service Kipling's "With the Night Mail" may become an accomplished fact long before the dates set in the story. In any case, whether founded or not, the proposed school for pilots should serve to arouse considerable interest and turn the public...