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...standing of a debating club as an indispensable part of the college, the ones attacked would swarm about him and riddle him with piercing arguments. The clash of two bodies armed with football pads is more exciting than the clash of two intellects armed with barbs of perspicacity. The glamor of brute conflict, of blaring horns and rousing cheers, can never be replaced by the subtle encounters of the mind. But colleges are institutions of learning, and thus they are most truly represented by their debating teams...
...raftered ceilings and picturesque narrow stairs. One of the noblest mansions in all London is historic Londonderry House. There Mr. MacDonald, after he was considered by the Labor Party to have betrayed it and gone over to Pride & Privilege, found a new home so warm and bright with the glamor of Mayfair that the least he could do in return as Prime Minister, was to take Edith's husband into the Cabinet (TIME...
Ballet enthusiasm has become epidemic. Young girls see the Monte Carlo dancers and go home to practice standing on their toes. In Manhattan addicts who call themselves balletomanes have organized a club. Books on the ballet appear with increasing frequency, give new glamor to the names of great oldtime dancers. This week British Critic Arnold L. Haskell tells the life story of Diaghilev, the man who brought Russian ballet to its highest peak.* Author Haskell's volume is in part an answer to the best-seller by Romola Nijinsky who insinuated repeatedly that Diaghilev was the cause...
...bluff above the entrance to Oyster Bay, L. I., the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club lacks the austerity of the New York Yacht Club, custodian of the America's Cup, but it has a trophy of its own which, for small-boat sailors the world over, matches the glamor of that famed receptacle. The Seawanhaka Cup, put up for international races in 1895, has been won by Canada, Scotland and Norway. Last week, a fine summer's sailing on Long Island Sound reached its climax at Seawanhaka with a three-out-of-five series in which the challenger...
...Ryan] obviously was unaccustomed to dealing with the workings of a shrewd and cunning European mind and doubtless was attracted by the glamor of foreign titles and his contact with Continental nobility. In permitting himself to be deceived by the sham of class or caste based upon the accident of birth, [he] lost sight of the fact that his own country is firmly grounded in principles opposed to divine rights of titled personages...