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...Freudian shows early in this tale of triumph, for the opening paragraph opens as follows. "When Bobbie Keaton came to Harvard, he dreamt nightly of a little gold football decorated with a crimson "H". The three things which Bobbie particularly liked were Audrey Parker, football, and a much used grimy pipe." Here, gentlemen, is also revealed, though I might let you guess--the eternal triangle. Evidently longevity is promised Audrey as well as football. But such minor errors cannot blot the heroic vigor of the plot structure. That Bobbie did not bother with the freshman team matters very little. Revere...
...quarter saw the ball see-saw in the center of the field with both sides striving savagely but vainly to advance it. . . . At a nod from the coach, Bobbie, his face beaming, pranced on to the gridiron." Then this domestic touch to add antithesis or something which deserves a paragraph...
...interest of accuracy, you may as well correct the last paragraph on p. 32 of Vol. VII, No. 6, and have it read "father" instead of "brother," which was the correct relationship of Grove L. Johnson to Hiram W. Johnson...
Castle Square--"Abie's Irish Rose", at 8.15: There's always this little darling waiting for us at the end of the paragraph. Papa can't spank you now, he's busy...
...current issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" contains an editorial, "Mobilized Knowledge", in which the following paragraph from Dr. Josiah H. Penniman, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, is used for a text:--"A university today is a glorified factory. It is a mammoth corporation, dealing not in a single product or group of products, but in the principles and products of all knowledge. It has added to its traditional strength because it has learned how to organize knowledge in such fashion that the fundamentals of the several fields can be brought to bear upon a given situation in almost...