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...Harvard manner" troubles us even more. Why, we query, should a man act like a gentleman in college? Or, for that matter, why shouldn't he? A person's polish, blithely spattered upon a well-thumbed pedigree, will hardly serve him in peddling bonds. Wherefor then, all this poifect gent stuff? Is it, too, an adaptation to environment? Perhaps, but since the wholesome prostitution of "good names" has become a disturbing realization to most of the Beacon Street element there must be something beneath the surface. The Harvard man must actually have a manner. He has He has lots...
Chapman's early translation of Homer is entitled "The Crowne of all Homeres Worckes, Batrachomyomachia or the Battaile of Frogs and Mice". This is also a presentation copy inscribed to "ye Righte Virtuouse and worthie Gent: Mr. Henry Reynolds...
...Lewis articles in the Post quickly disposed of Novelist Lewis, the "romantic" figure, by revealing that he had never before been up in an airplane. At the Berlin flying field, "everything in life be came wildly different from the nor mal, mousy existence of a literary gent mooching about his garden or his words." flat, writing words, words...
...will desert them, leave them flat, although if hurts them. Because they really aren't intelligent (gent gent...
...that the stewed gent sobered...