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...than perception." William James, U. S. philosopher, admired her less philosophically, thus: "The sum of it is that you are a blessing, and I'll kill anyone who says you are not." Blessing or dupe, Miss Keller, now 49. describes these commentators and other ladies and gentlemen in her haphazard notes of the past quarter-century...
...inefficiency of the department and the unadvisability of having any divisional examinations so soon in the fall that a student has only time to register and attend the first meetings of his class before he finds himself taking a series of examinations. The difficulties which have arisen from a haphazard method of notification can easily be eliminated in the future but the question of whether the dates of the examinations have been wisely set raises a more controversial point...
...when Harvard college was founded as a small theological school it was settled a good distance from the Charles river. It was not a purely haphazard chance that caused the college to build the embryonic Yard with its back to the river for the malaria infested swamps were something to be avoided in the days before modern hygienic conditions...
After his first haphazard fisticuffing success Max became, in comparatively short time, Germany's champion...
...Fifty haphazard years of jerrybuilding followed. The Civil War focused national attention upon the capital and its miserable estate. Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself. Washington grew out of its youthful squalor, but recklessly, without unity or good taste. Architecture went on a gingerbread spree?viz. the State, War & Navy Building, the Post Office Department Building. The L'Enfant plan was forgotten...