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The deadly efficiency of the Japanese is, unbeknownst, giving the death-blow to a tradition of comic literature. The bow-legged English of the Oriental schoolboy has long held its place in the humorist's schedule. Whenever the public mouth seems inclined to relax to a comfortable position, a letter...
Let's have a look at the "spindle-legged" and "hollow-chested" American youth who at this moment adorns the garages and boulevards of Cambridge because he prefers the broad highway to the gridiron, or diamond. It is easy to see that the automobile owners at Harvard come, as a...
Apparently Coach Knox has little sympathy with the younger generation and its twentieth century mode of life. Terming them a "spindle-legged and hollow-chested" lot, he continues in his denunciation of the present "jazzworn" youth of America.
"Parents and preparatory schools are responsible for the frivolous, spindle-legged, hollow-chested physiques of the younger generation," he said, "No one should be allowed to have an automobile at college. Athletics should take the place of joy rides.
How Treasure Island Was Stocked with Bullion. Here is a sequel that takes the place of its predecessor. It is the tale of how the treasure got to Treasure Island. Not Stevenson, but Smith has written itmple story of an undermanned ship and a force gang. It was the daring...