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...impossible. The stories in this collection have been conceived and penned in a variety of moods, and only the reviewer, clutching at straws, could pretend to detect a motive proper to the entire company. A certain prosaic literalness and timorous aversion from the loftier strains of prose perhaps comes nearer than any other quality to providing a measure for the book as a whole; at best, it is little above mediocrity. There is a ghost story by Somerset Maugham, for instance, in which the author describes an uncanny scene in the most matter of fact terms, no doubt believing this...
...iteration it is difficult to see. And not only his iteration, but his childishness is disagreeable. "What jolly, jolly fun!" he exclaims; bang! goes the book and the reader's patience. But reader, reopen! At the end of the story you will be rewarded with what is perhaps nearer nobility than any other page in the volume. Courage triumphing over infamy, a grotesque and petty nature winning its hard verdict from truth and struggling into the light at last...
...Howe Jr. '04, University crew coach in 1922, who was also present, saying that he had done more for Harvard rowing than any other man in recent years Drawing an analogy between crew in American colleges and crew as it exists in England, he dwelt especially on the nearer approach to a similarity or attitude toward the sport "The English attitude has always been to regard the sport as a sport, while American colleges have been prone to regard it more as a task. Due largely to the rowing for all policy lately established, the attitude at Harvard has changed...
...after a year and a half, far north of the Arctic Circle, he concluded that he would miss the pole, and consequently, on foot with a few followers, he left the boat and set out, across the ice for the pole. He did not reach it, but came much nearer than any man had done before. It was a marvelous exhibition of courage and vigor...
...Nansen's fame rests upon two exploits performed some 26 years apart. The first was his Arctic voyage which took him nearer to the Pole than any other explorer had penetrated up to that time. The second was his epoch making work under the League of Nations for the repatriation of prisoners of war and the relief of war refugees in the striken countries of Europe