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...never understood or cared for Pushkin's poetry, was hurt and annoyed by his fits of literary hibernation. Pushkin himself hastened the inevitable end. He challenged a young Frenchman, Baron d'Anthés, who had been making violent love to Natalya, but was robbed of his prey when d'Anthés sidestepped him by marrying Natalya's sister. When d'Anthés later returned to the attack, so did Pushkin; and this time the duel took place. Both men were hit, Pushkin fatally. Seven years after that, still-beauteous, Natalya married...
...MacCracken faithfully held until last week. Then he turned up at the college's tenth anniversary banquet to announce that Sarah Lawrence was now able to go her way alone. Said he: "Mr. Lawrence recognized his own advanced age and was concerned lest the college, inadequately endowed, fall prey to misfortune or more grasping hands. Mr. Lawrence sought a defensive alliance with Vassar, giving that college the power ... to control and finally take over Sarah Lawrence. ... All its powers Vassar now willingly lays down...
...hell bent over rough prairie, plowed ground and fields of cotton stalks. The coyote may run for several hours, stray far afield. As he tires, he returns to his home range, begins to run in ever narrowing circles like a fox. At the kill, the hounds pile on their prey, often smother him before they have ripped him badly with their teeth...
...announcing that every Freshman who has fallen prey to November hour examinations will be given a private heart to heart talk in order to discover his personal difficulties, the deans of 1940 have made an important contribution to the welfare of the class. On entering a large university, where the emphasis rests on individual responsibility and where no helping hands are stretched out from above, the Freshman is often snowed under by a storm of new and entirely different experiences. The transition between school and college is in many cases the hardest step on the scholastic ladder...
...moronic faces your candids show fall prey every two years to the guileful exhortations of the Cole Bleases of different shades but all of the same ilk; tickling voters vanity; telling them they are the salt of the earth, the only remaining pure Anglo-Saxons here...