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...other hand, what doth it profit a man if he ignores a piteous Lampoon to fling his wit to the night winds of Boston? And how regrettable the spectacle of him who forsakes the scrimmage beneath the goal posts to plunge headlong into the disorderly crush around the sausage and scrambled eggs. Undeniably it is Harvard's business to make men but whether she is to make them purely for the satisfaction of the daughters of leisure in Back Bay remains to be seen. Husbanding the golden Jane has been deplored since the time of Omar, but it may still...
Observers remembered that Japan is friendly to Peking and seized upon the essential fact that the Japanese cannonade made it impossible for the Nankingese to follow up their victory over the Pekingese. These latter were thus able to recover from their headlong flight last week and took up strong positions to defend Peking...
...fact of the matter probably is that public life in our own times is poorly organized for great adventure and much better organized for regularly. Adventure has made a few successful men in politics, but it has unmade many moves. Men like Curtis picturesque, daring, headlong, vivid come to Washington and are swallowed by the system. Hitherto bold, they cover up, play safe, risk nothing, watch their chances and advance by inches...
...York suburbs ravished chicken coops were called to police notice. After a headlong chase intrepid guardians shot a coyote, small craven of the dog tribe normally found on western plains. Twelve slaughtered turkeys in another suburb roused another chase. A prairie wolf, nine months old, was shot...
...possess a particle of your leader's [Dr. Sun Yat-sen's] vision or remember that close co-operation with Soviet Russia was his last will, then you will stop this headlong plunging toward a precipice, dragging with you the fate of your country...