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...less proficient at the game of "getting by," and they are therefore set up as examples of poor spirit. Yet their cases, if they will teach others a lesson, will have been worth while. The average student has to have facts knocked into his head; most of us merely shrug our shoulders at these two incidents and thank our stars we are not the unfortunate ones. We are even apt to idolize the men who have been discharged as martyrs to the cause of loafing...
...Cohan used to sing through his nose and glorify his country. Hodge talks through his nose, but he, too, glorifies the country--the rural regions of it. In this play he is, as usual, just a plain, easy-going country chap, who can faze a multi-millionaire with a shrug of the shoulder. That's probably why Boston likes William Hodge better than Broadway likes him. And that's why, in spite of a rather vapid vehicle, William Hodge will continue to talk through his nose at the Majestic for eight or ten weeks--unless influenza seizes...
...deprecate the spirit which manifests itself in a shrug of the shoulders and an expression of indifference as to the fate of the nine. It is not manly. No pluckier thing has been done in Harvard athletics for many a year than the creation of this year's nine out of the material afforded. There has been an honest effort to make the best out of unfavorable circumstances and to represent the University in creditable fashion at least. This has been done, and we feel that there is occasion rather to thank Captain Wiggin and his men for what they...
...list embracing a large proportion of the class, - it will rouse as much excitement as the list of Bachelors of Arts. Our Harvard honours will become much like those of a certain college, one of whose alumni, on being asked if he graduated with honours, said with a shrug, "O yes; half my class...
...such petty thefts occur only occasionally, the members will endure them with a patient shrug; but if, on the other hand, two or three men persist in habitual thieving, they ought, when detected, to be summarily ejected from the Reading-Room and thereafter deprived of its privileges...