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...acutely regarding this raffish talisman, Osborne measured his distance, sprang from the ground higher than ever a man had hoisted his body before at an indoor meet. As he crossed the bar, his leg touched it, set it to tottering. Seated on the ground, Osborne looked imploringly up. Nearby, mute, sat the magic shoe. The bar, as if upheld by legerdemain, stopped its quaking, its teetering, rested fast on the uprights, 6 ft. 61/4 in. up. Thus was a new world's record for the indoor* high-jump set? one inch higher than that made by Brown and Landon...
...past, so noble, so venerable, and so steadying in its influence upon the present and the future. Yet, as the oldest college in the new world, relies of that past abound in scattered places, if one only find the diligence to hunt them down. As time goes on, these mute witnesses of Harvard's history will grow more valuable. Why not make of Memorial Hall a museum devoted solely to Harvard's history." The idea merits consideration...
Censorship is daughter of Intolerance, and member of a large family of Thou-shalt-nots who thrive and grow fat throughout the land. Who shall deny them their birthright? Shall the Salem witches have died in vain? Shall the ghost of Roger Williams be mute? Shall the eighteenth amendment be robbed at last of its point and meaning? Cotton, Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower...
...bays in which the carving has been completed, there are groups of bosses depicting the Seven Sacraments of the Church, the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the Seven Deadly Sins. Thus, for a mute warning, the effigies of Vice stand against the effigies of Virtue before the face of the Lord. Ingenious are the presentiments of the Seven Sins-pungent apothegms in grey stone. They wear modern clothes, those jaunty evils; they are grouped about a central boss, Penance, symbolized by Peter, who receives the keys of the Church from Jesus Christ. The seven...
Covetousness stands mute, an abashed and haggard youth, amid the stony evidence of his larcenies...