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Charley Whiteside, admiral of Harvard's eight-oared fleet, bundled himself a little more warmly in his heavy ba-ba coat, and turned to scan with a practised eye the husky and long-legged young gentlemen in the Varsity shell who were pumping down the Charles at a 24-beat...
To Urbana-Champaign in 1913, as assistant professor of heating & ventilation, went a long-faced, long-legged young man named Arthur Cutts Willard. Born in Washington in 1878, son of a Treasury official, he had studied for two years in Washington's School of Pharmacy before setting off to...
Shrewdly timed to touch obliquely on current Jew-baitings in Germany and mishaps on the stock exchange, The House of Rothschild is an historical picture in the grand manner, conducted with splendid energy and style. "Dignity" is what old Mayer Amschel Rothschild advises his sons to acquire. The picture, like...
In the spring of 1911 Oxford celebrated a great crew victory over Cambridge, setting a course record of 18 min. 29 sec. In 1923 with 40 victories to 34, Oxford still seemed to have an uncatchable lead, in a. century of racing over the muddy 4 ¼ miles on the...
A King's chief stock-in-trade is heirs. There was a time when long-legged Gustaf, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends, was more plentifully supplied with heirs than any other monarch in all Europe. He had two sons and five grandsons, hardy scions of...