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...gruelling contest. Nine huskies will then be picked from each squad, and the game will be on. No one has as yet been found willing to risk the brutalities likely to overtake the umpire, but Mr. Beach, representing the University Press, and "Mac," a CRIMSON scrivener of renown, have agreed to act as attorneys-on-the-field to intercede with the umpire. The arena will be the Freshman diamond. Bubbling beer will be used to resuscitate the contestants who will be festooned with appropriate colors to designate to which fraternity they belong. The numerous spectators that will undoubtedly attend...
...greatest scholars and most devoted servants. For the past 21 years he has worked here with unflagging energy and zeal, a shining example for his pupils, and an object of love and admiration to all who knew him; while his books have brought to Harvard wide renown in his chosen field of Mediaeval English History both in this country and in Europe. Modest, unselfish and retiring, with the broad outlook and noble charity of judgment which supplement and adorn the highest attainment, he labored steadily onward, never courting prominence or notoriety, but at the same time deeply grateful...
Arthur Amos Noyes, chemist of renown; a leader of research in physical chemistry. As Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and recently its head, our neighbor, our fellow-laborer and our friend...
...that Mr. Forbes Robertson gave a memorable presentation Hamlet on the same Elizabethan stage, and the Department is to be congratulated on procuring such an admirable production to continue this series of Elizabethan drams. It is, after all, a great compliment that an actress of Miss Adams's renown should be willing to go to the trouble and expense of preparing a performance, especially for this one or two other occasions, and the University is grateful. The performance tonight will have also the reminiscent charm produced by the elaborate reproduction of Elizabethan conditions under which the plays were first given...
...then shall Christ's teaching of lavishness apply to the lives of men? Here and there is a man who bends his concentrated energies in utter self-absorption to some one task of his own, to the accomplishing of some purpose, to the achievement of reputation and renown; and often he accomplishes his task only to find that the prize he has grasped has turned to ashes in his hand, that in gaining an object he has lost the sweetness of life, that in winning a place a place in men's estimation he has lost his place...