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When The London Times states a fact, a fact it is, with very few exceptions. Should The Times ever prove irresponsible, it would, after years of utmost solicitude, utterly disconcert the digestion of a vast Commonwealth. Likewise the editor of The Times. His position is well nigh that of a state official. His most private statement, his most guarded whisper, will, if overheard, be received with attention, credence, close scrutiny. Editors of The Times are therefore tight-lipped gentlemen, seldom heard from outside their own columns. But after they relinquish their duties...
Dartmouth has played some great games this fall, so has Notre Dame, Syracuse, or Illinois, but no team has displayed such superlative football throughout an entire battle this season as was seen in the Stadium on Saturday. From beginning to end Princeton was well nigh faultless...
Social analysis, pages from the history of emotions, both, or neither--Shaw has clothed his thoughts in a raiment of words well-nigh Biblical in their majesty and beauty. With these he mixed current slang in a fashion as masterly as it is dramatic. He smiles, he sneors, he argues, he cries aloud, he speaks with the wisdom of the ages--but always there are the French, the English, and Joan...
...memory of the brilliant game that Dooley put up in the Stadium last fall still lingers in the minds of Harvard men. Sport critics united in giving him a very considerable portion of the credit for the Dartmouth victory. His piloting of the team was well nigh flawless, and it won him the place as All-Stadium quarterback on the CRIMSON'S mythical eleven...
...Century. The authenticity of the find was endorsed by Professor Delis, Director of the Neapolitan Library, and by Professor Nicola Barone, Director of the State Archives at Naples. Livy wrote his history as a Roman, to raise a monument to the greatness of Rome. His work is well-nigh finally authoritative for the period from the landing of Aeneas in Italy to the death of Drusus, 9 B.C. Knowledge of the contents of the lost books was derived from so-called periochae, or epitomes, an almost complete set of which was extant. The recovered books, it was said at Naples...