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...Brennan raised his voice to the audience: "If for no other reason than that we are shaking hands, you ought to be satisfied. This is the first time I have spoken to brother Cappellini in a year. I want his administration to be a success." The delegates sat in mute astonishment. Then they began to cheer...
...reading, deep fund of historical research are hidden from the world because he has no love of display. I venture to say that if Mr. Ford was placed on the witness stand and required under oath to give a fifty-word biography of Benedict Arnold he would remain mute. Rather than appear learned or highbrow he would affect ignorance. It is the nature...
Perhaps it requires a special talent to write successfully for boys. If so, here's broadcasting the fact that such a talent is badly needed right now. It may be that some at present mute and inglorious Oliver Optic will heed. But one warning is necessary. The author, whoever he be, should try his product on the dog, on a perfectly ordinary boy to whom Shakespeare is merely required reading and Ivanhoe gets off to a dull start, before he sends it to a publisher...
Sheer fighting spirit, combined effectually with a stroke which remained crisp and powerful throughout the gruelling mile and seven-eights course, gave the Freshman crew a well-deserved victory over Coach Muller's University eight Saturday afternoon on the basin. Nearly, two lengths of open water bore mute testimony to the decisive character of the defeat as the shells filed across the finish line...
...would be wrong to take a book like this either too seriously or too lightly. Perhaps a mute inglorious Milton in hidden away here; but if so, he is well hidden. On the other hand, there is much work here of an interesting and serious character, and a few poems that show real accomplishment. Certainly it is a much better book than any that could have come out of Harvard in this reviewer's day, twenty years...