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...magazine, and last the novel, reached the stage where it is printed, read, and discarded, in an hour, figuratively speaking. D'Alembert once said "Write as if you lived for glory; act as if you were indifferent to it". But D'Alembert was old-fashioned. Now fame, "that last infirmity of noble mind", is becoming more and more infirm. The glory of literature is no more. Literature--can it be that literature itself, in the original sense of the word, is no more? The classics of the future--what of them...
...Mott Haven team would suffer greatly. A good cinder track can be built and put into good condition, under the most favorable circumstances, in not less than two or three years. On the soggy, infirm ground of Soldiers Field it would take longer. Some of the track athletic authorities, indeed, believe that an even, smooth and firm track could never be built and kept in condition...
...Farley is now very old and infirm, being nearly ninety years of age. The most distinguished member of his class, which consisted of eighty one members, was probably Mr. Sidney Bartlett, who died but a short time...
...rejoice that the Hollis pump has again been restored to its old position of dignified usefulness. Alone it stands, its old companion in arms, the Massachusetts pump, being still to infirm to assist in the good work of quenching the thirst of the parched students. It is strongly suspected that the revival of one of these landmarks, or rather yard-marks, has been brought about by the Total Abstinence League in the hopes of turning aside the stream of humanity which frequents at this time of the year the neighboring beer saloons. Whether this suspicion be true or false...
...SAPLING. Infirm of purpose! Give to me the file...