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...imposing superstructure of prestige is always a comfort to those in its shelter, but the difficulty is in creating a reputation for superiority in all forms of activity. Harvard's claim to the strength of tradition and mellow antiquity can hardly be disputed considering its great age in comparison with the other institutions, however. In South Bend, Indiana there is a college not even mentioned by the Boston Herald but which has established a standard of football which has been unsurpassed for some time. There are small colleges in which the Haison between teacher and pupil is much closer than...
...Munthe's love, and even his Parisian subjects are Italians in exile: Hurdygurdler Don Gaetano, Tragic Poet Monsieur Alfredo, Model Raffaella. Though his tales are by nature grim, Author Munthe has whimsied them into wistfulness which never quite loses an old-fashioned charm. His humor is of the same mellow vintage. On a vacation at Ischia he struck up a friendship with a donkey. "Each morning came my neighbor, the old donkey, and stuck in her solemn head through the open door, looking steadfastly at me. I always wondered why she stood there so still and did nothing but stare...
...that a generation has grown up which knows not Copey, now grandiloquently Emeritus. Through the honeyed sentimentality of the Copy legend, there emerges from Hollis only a slight figure covered with a derby and an air of complete detachment. When the day arrives and the raw recruits upsurp the mellow places, the vagabond fears that Copey will visualize with even more complacency his famous headlines: "Hollis a Holocaust, Copey a Crisp...
...complimentary to say that a book is good if it can be read by anyone and do no harm, no better tribute could be paid this work. Certainly not all readers would acquire equal benefit from it; certainly the mellow vein of understanding, the whimsical, delicate irony will be lost on many. But there are no startling extremes to lead a reader away from the genuine excellence of the work as a whole...
According to the Harkness Hoot, named in honor of the charitable Edward S. Harkness, Yale has but a short span of moagre years before her. The oldtime meditation and culture have fled the university cloisters and, in their stead, have come cynicism and sophistication. The mellow beer that mocked the hearts of the fathers has become bad gin for the raging sons. Things have come to a pretty pass...