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...there ever was a bogey snooping about Weld and Newell Boat Houses it will now have to take up quarters elsewhere. Every closet and recess in these buildings has been so aired and thrown open to the light that there is no longer any nook or cranny where it can hide. At the open meeting on yesterday Coach Stevens made it clear to candidates that crew at Harvard is crew for Harvard; that a single standard prevails in judging candidates; and that this standard is merit. No spoils system, no patronage, no closed shop. Every man who wants...
...mother caused him to be called William Dean Howells. The boy played a little, went to school a bit, then learned to sit long hours on a high stool in a printer's shop setting type. When he could, he went home and sat alone "in a windowed nook under the stairs," tirelessly schooling himself in literature, languages, composition. He loved his family with a deep reserve; he guarded his thoughts; he pursued youth's ideal of beauty...
While young Hugo Stinnes tours this country in plutocratic style searching in every nook and cranny for good investments for his opulent father, there is all the more pathos in the current trip of Oberammergau's peasants to America. These simple folk have always been so absolutely apart from the outside world and its cares that even the most cosmopolitan person cannot but feel that the Passion Play and its actors belong only to Oberammergau, and that if the world wants to see Anton Lang and his fellow-actors it must go to the little German village...
...from the ear of mortal man, has even himself been rocked by unholy glee. The Glee Club, too, is reported to be in fighting trim, and straining at the leash for the evening's operations on the moonlit steps of Widener. Spreads will be spread thick in every nook and cranny of the Yard, and many will be the rows and festoons of Japanese lanterns, which will extend the joys of the holiday far into the night. Even the weather man is on our side, an occasion rare in old New England. Surely this will be a Class...
...address upon a text taken from the first chapter of John-God said: "I am the light of the world, I am the light of anture." The speaker said that when the sun rises over the earth and finds it in darkness it sends its light abroad to every nook and corner; this is the parable of Christ sent on earth to redeem man. It is not strange that we turn from evil to good, for man has the highest possibilities in him which by Christ's aid can be carried out. We are children of God, not of Darkness...