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...seemed that the old manager's patience was about to reap its reward; that he would once again assume the enjoyable role of pennant winner. His youngsters, however, proved not quite stanch enough to turn the trick; finished second to the world champion Washington Senators. Last year they were again good without being quite good enough, ended third from the top. Experts liked their 1927 chances...
...larger extent philanthropie. Britain has been bullying China since 1842; for over three quarters of a century she has been grinding unequal rights of trade and property from the Chinese, and of late years forcing upon them the lucrative opium trade. An aggressive policy in China will merely reap for us a share of the odium of which Britain has sown the seeds. Our marines will be serving foreign interests as much...
...average inventor has a hard life and it is a rare instance for him to reap the rewards of his invention as I have done." So said one Anatol Josepho of New York last week, a few moments after pocketing a slip of paper upon which were written the idyllic figures $1,000,000. His invention was a "quarter-in-the-slot" machine. Out of it comes, not gum or hairpins, but a strip of eight sepia photographs, each 2 in. x 1½ in., showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike...
...this group is no figment of the imagination the figures of every higher educational institution in the country will testify. It represents a phase in the development of American nationality peculiar to the present era. It demands college wholesale without knowing what college means and without being able to reap the rewards of college. The phase is temporary but it is real. In order to carry the college through it without serious harm to the curriculum, ideals, and standards and at the same time to satisfy and faster the development of the intermediate group referred to above the Junior College...
Harvard can hardly add posthumous praise to that which Professor Sargent's unassuming services in the few hundred acres beyond Jamaica Pond have already won him, even from across the Atlantic. He lived to see his labours reap their reward. Harvard can but regret his death and be proud of his life...