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Helper. "And when, after my father's death and just before the war, very heavy responsibilities were thrown on me and there were many puzzling questions to be dealt with, not my father himself could have been kinder or more considerately helpful than was Mr. Baker. But here I am touching on too intimate personal feelings, and will pass...
Just a week ago in the Harvard Stadium Princeton's savage Tigers took the measure of a very limp Harvard football team, 34 to 0. "Fair Harvard was only fair," derided a New York football correspondent. Other New York papers were no kinder; the Boston journals sorry, but callously truthful. It was the most complete rout that Harvard has suffered since the '90's. Those who sat in the crowded Stadium saw a bewildered Crimson eleven, first wondering what under the sun Princeton was about; discovering that Princeton was there for business, and finally, allowing Princeton to go right ahead...
What the Shaggy Genius does not generally consider is that if a manager produces his play, the manager is staking $30,000 or so on the turn of public favor. If the public liked His Shaggy Highness better, the managers might treat His Highness kinder...
Some time ago Mr. A. B. See amused a public jaded by stories of crime and divorce by expressing his scholarly opinion that all women's colleges should be burned to the ground. Kinder, Kuche, and Kirche, in the good old German sense, was the proper province of female aspiration, and any attempt to educate them beyond the three K's was foolish and dangerous. The result of Mr. See's bull was to increase the endowment funds of Adelphi College (the specific object of his wrath) and to delight the many thousand intelligent Americans of both sexes who love...
...stage and with her as leader straightway set up a soviet in America? If she were in a Billy Sunda tabernacle or a revivalist revival meeting, she might have done so. But she was in Symphony Hall, in Boston, among the cold and dispassionate. Perhaps it is kinder to imagine that she was merely interpreting her feelings on finding that the last piece of soap in the bath-tub had disappeared down the drain-pipe...