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...townspeople love him with special fervor because he refuses to act like a hero. Says Louie Hoff, music instructor for Lincoln County schools: "He isn't the biggety type. He's still the same nice kid." Mrs. Ocie J. Smith, who has taught school in Hamlin for nigh on 40 years, says: "Land sakes! Why, when I had Charlie in the third grade, he was a little slow. I never dreamed he would grow up to be traveling around the country so fast. He used to sit in school daydreaming, and I always suspected he had his fishing...
...though he feels that his work is "well-nigh completed," Seymour still worries a good deal about the future of such institutions, as Yale. His chief concern is the same as it was twelve years ago-"absolute intellectual freedom . . . The Yale atmosphere must be so completely impregnated with the sense of freedom that our students going from here will serve naturally and universally as its apostles . . . We seek the truth and will endure the consequences...
...socks and shoelaces, he considered his shirt. It should be stimulating in view of the Big Day, and he fingered through the pile of pinks and yellows, No, what he needed was something else, and he put on a size 14, starched, button down--certainly stimulating and well nigh painful...
...Father God, who stooped so nigh...
...country. Before last year's Brown game he recollected how as an undergraduate at Brown, the coaching staff would impress on the players the importance of beating Harvard. By the time the coaches got through with them at Brown, Margarita went on, the players believed that is was nigh on impossible to beat Harvard...