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Where it meets Yale, Harvard's line will be pitted against the most powerful type of straight offensive football shown this year by any team it has met, but the type of offensive play that it is best fitted to repel...
...Tibet from 1924 to 1927 for the Arnold Arboretum. The collection includes birds ranging all the way from humming-birds to bearded eagles with a wing spread of ten feet. The region from which these birds have been sent is largely unexplored by Europeans, as the fierce native tribes repel all intrusions of foreigners, and Dr. Rock succeeded only because of his long experienced with the Tibetan tribes...
...them so highly. They illustrate the vision that the brotherhood of letters and community of culture knows no boundaries which restrict intercourse. Differences there are between nations in all things. But it is established among civilized peoples that these differences are meant to delight and inspire rather than to repel the scholar or the scientist. From foreign contacts, moreover, native students bring back new notions applicable, usually, to the educational system of their own country, sometimes to other features of its life also. The current ideas afloat in our colleges, the tutorial system, the division into college units, and freedom...
...Orleans, where the Thompson trip was to terminate in welcome-speeches, in reception-com-mittees, masses of citizens were gathered, not to greet but to repel a visitor. Chagrined, but sympathetic, sorry, the Mayor gave $1,000 to Memphis floodfighters. In all, his party contributed...
Whether these changes will attract or repel the paying customer, whose enthusiasm may have been slightly dampened by recent exposition and interment of "scandals," is subject for heated discussion in circles where subjects are scarce. They are sure, however, to stimulate sale of scorecards "giving names of players and c'reck batting order...