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...athletics. There is no discrimination. All have equal opportunity. The factor of first importance must be the effect on the value of the Military Academy to the Army of the United States. Athletic training at West Point is given with a view to having each graduate thoroughly competent to impart instruction to enlisted men in at least a few sports. Athletic prowess to a graduate is invaluable...
...crocodiles, has well earned such a distinction. There are indeed many unkind enough to include Rollins college in the above category of significant characteristics; this group will point with ill-disguised glee to the latest innovation of that institution. With all the ludicrous pomposity that misguided sincerity can impart, Rollins college has imposed on its personnel, both faculty and undergraduate, an oath that it will "strive for self-knowledge, self-reverence, and self-control." Searching for precedent, classicists discovered that a similar oath was exacted from the Athenian youth upon his entrance to manhood and civic life; the oath proceeds...
...other talents, this comedian has an excellent reputation for his ability to build up situations for his fellow-players. Many of the specialty numbers in the "Laugh Parade" draw their chief merit from the running commentary of Mr. Wynn in the background, and the peculiar funniness which he can impart to misfit clothing. Inspired by the success of "Of These I Sing," with satire on contemporary politics, "The Laugh Parade" directs most of its gags in the same direction, but with a success which raises it above mere imitation...
...answered in the words of, as the newspapers have it, our Dr. Lowell that--"that institution is dead which does not change." "I know," said '28, "but the fountains, what about the fountains, will they play in the quadrangles?" Alas, no one knew, though the lip thatch lifted to impart the sad news that in the Yard he found no fountains. "Ah, the old order . . ." said '28, who felt he had a flair for words--he had been in Bio-Chemistry...
Like Roosevelt, Dr. Bevan wears pincenez which (unlike Roosevelt) he removes when he starts to talk. He is tall and plump, has a way of leaning toward a listener as though he were about to impart a great confidence...