Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rolland from his early visit to Rome when he fell under the inspiring influence of Malwida von Meysenbug; when Tolstoi so kindly answered the young man's letter of doubt raised by his booklet What's to be Done?, through the lonely years of his unsuccessful "tragedies of fate", including "Danton" and "St. Louis", through the year of the "heroic biographies", which gained for Rolland an interested but small following, to his final and definite victory with his ten volume novel "Jean Christophe" (1902-1912), and the disappointments...
...therefore Yale is 13 points better than Harvard. This method of analyzing teams is of no value, however, first because a team never plays with exactly the same effectiveness on two different occasions-- it will either be better or worse-- and second, because in closely contested games fate often plays a very important part. It seems certain that Princeton, for a variety of reasons, was not as formidable against Yale as against the University. However, it is equally certain that Yale has a tremendously powerful and aggressive team, which knows football and which plays as a unit. The fact that...
...Begs Cambridge men not to mob Sims", reads a caption in yesterday's paper. But the circumstances are not so alarming as they might seem; the Admiral is not threatened with the fate of "Pussyfoot" Johnson. If he is manhandled at all, it will be because the over-enthusiastic Englishmen of Cambridge have once again forgotten their sense of propriety. The Senior Proctor, who, it would seem, is the University's chief guardian of manners, has written to an undergraduate weekly, reminding the students that two years ago they "did in fact cause inconvenience and embarrassment to certain distinguished soldiers...
...CRIMSON'S line-up is as follows: c., Cutter; p., Cameron. No other fielders will be necessary, as 27 strikeouts will be sufficient to settle Lampy's fate. Hamilton and Hamblett, the home run heroes, will be relied upon for most of the CRIMSON'S tallies...
...among the French provisions. They showed us the Professor' residence, where a number of officers and soldiers had been killed or wounded by Turkish cannon fire from a mountain six miles to the north, and where a few minutes later members of a relieving party had met the same fate. We saw the president's house, where there is not a whole pane of glass left, where the long back veranda has been blown away, and where a shell went through one of the bed-romms, but where they say "no serious damage has been done...