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...realize the wonderful resources of our university! The Library, the laboratories and the museums are appreciated only by advanced students. The average undergraduate never speaks to a Professor except of strict necessity. Toward the middle of his Senior year, with ominous divisionals steadily approaching, he suddenly wakes to his peril and moans for his wasted opportunities. The last months are shadowed with storms and desperation. How much better to have this all away in the first three years, and leave one clear term for real study! In creating such a possibility Harvard would multiply her power and her greatness...
...country and to any Government, whatever its complexion, that is in power. This object is less a formal visit to the last unvisited Dominion, less a question of London policy, still less an attempt to reconcile Boer and Briton, than a national rally to combat the greatest peril of the white man in South Africa...
...room, Mr. Farnol brings another grand collection of Hessian boots, shirt frills, snuff boxes, rapiers, gleaming dirks. These he disposes as skilfully as of yore. The plot lurks excitingly -how young David Loring came from Virginia to inherit his father's English estates and was tangled, at the peril of his life in the cunning of his Uncle Nevil, diabolical usurper. Murder creeps by night; Anticlea Loring (foundling, not blood-cousin to David) has flaming red hair and a high temper; wedding bells peal over the bad uncle's grave. The minor characters do not quite catch their...
...tattoo of talons on the windows of the house of Quong Lee; the wind sniffs under the door. Tom, the Hardcress Kid, is safe now, warm, dry, nor does he try to cast over the shiverings of his penury any glamour other than that which properly belongs to peril overpast. His book will interest some because it is a fine piece of prose, some because it is the story of a man who knew too well that dingy code of the Ivy Restaurant, some because it is the life of Thomas Burke...
...TERROR PERIL SENDS COLD CHILL UP FRENCH SPINES...