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...proved to be the pillar of strength on the Columbia team was Henry Herts who, after going down before the accurate attack of Carrillo, pulled himself together sufficiently to beat Howard Finney Jr. '26 and A.R. Allem '26 with the foils and still have energy enough to vanquish R.P. Outerbridge '28 and J.F. Davidson '27 with the duelling swords. His day's total was just half of the winning Columbia score...
...fable; it is an introduction. It introduces to Plympton Street and to the world at each end of Plympton Street, and even beyond, a column worthy longer and wider streets or greens or whatnot, a column which will at worst be a cenotaph, at best a pillar of salt. For, "if the salt shall lose its savor"--whereof the column? To Perfervid Professors and People In The Next Seats is it dedicated. Civilizations and columns are built on both...
...Tokyo, a professor of the Imperial University explained 16 skeletons beneath the foundation of an old castle tower as probable relics of a "human pillar," such as the ancient Japanese would bury at bridgeheads or embankments to propitiate the super-god of rivers during construction projects...
...Through the ages the people of China have looked to the class of scholars, the comparatively few educated men, as the main pillar of society. They have followed the lead of these men, and until recent years that lead has always been a conservative one. The scholars always studied alone, and absorbed the old literature and philosophy of the Empire. Naturally they became saturated with the past, and thus reactionary leaders of society...
...that Hongkong-"place of the sweet lagoon"-was the perfect sapphire in Queen Victoria's crown? Where else did such a roadstead curve so lustrously about the skirts of such island hills? This island, 29 square miles, had been England's since 1842, her Pacific Gibraltar, her Pillar of Hercules between the Torrid and the Temperate Zones, her trademark on the map of China...