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...Havers won his laurels by steadiness, with four 73's and a 76. He recently succeeded Sandy Herd as the professional at Coome Hill Club near London, though still in his early twenties. At 14 he broke the record for the Royal Norwich Course and two years later qualified for the open championship...
...enduring. Today, accordingly, as we sat through a tedious hour in Harvard 6, Comrade Ratsky called my attention to a part of the bench before him. Here he had smoothed a place with his knife and had inscribed deep, heavily-pencilled lines: "All of you here are but a herd of garbage swilling pigs. You shall rot in your stagnant tracks...
...have not been at all well lately. I think it is the food in this fetid place. Then too, among the herd of carnivora, whose only thought is on their stomachs, one has no desire to eat. Here the prize steers, the ones selected for the athletic contests, they take to the training tables to fatten. The rest have to fight for scraps anywhere on the outskirts of the campus. I am so finely adjusted that the balance must be easily disturbed, I think, one way or another. At any rate, when I went today to the drug store...
...American idea of education is all wrong, as I and Upton Sinclair have believed from the first. Not being a tame conformist, I have arrived two weeks behind the herd to prove my theory at this university of monuments and mudholes here in Cambridge...
...have from poachers, many poor people needing food living all around the little peninsular on which I had them, and irresponsible schooner men in summer being able to land and shoot the deer, from whom the number of herders I was able to afford could not protect them. The herd is now growing again under the protection of the Canadian Government...