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...wealth, wisdom, and social success, the rush of students coming to college for irrelevant reasons has threatened to swamp the true scholar. In 1895, the enrollment in American colleges was 45,000. At present it is well over 500,000. Some of the new arrivals came to snatch the technical training which would enable them to get good jobs as quickly as possible; others to make those contacts which are believed to be profitable in certain forms of business; others to postpone for four years the period of going to work; others to take part in the hurly-burly...
...building the great mass of Harvard men know nothing. The difficulties confronting the completion of the one unit have served to prevent the release of information regarding the other. This situation is somewhat hard to explain on any grounds other than the usual promptness of the University authorities to snatch at any consideration which will appear to excuse them from the obligation of releasing perfectly legitimately desired information...
...this engine developed a tractive effort of 59,800 Ib. While 60 different engine crews were operating No. 4113 to make the record, David L. Forsythe, Frisco's equipment foreman, rode every mile. Every five days he would leave his smooth-breathing charge, go back to the caboose, snatch eight hours' sleep. Now 65, Foreman Forsythe began with the Frisco at 14, was a "hoghead" (engineer) for 41 years...
...last week's contest Rohrer's record was to raise 170½ lb. in the one-arm snatch. In the one-arm clean and jerk he lifted 198 lb. and then later, feeling yet stronger, he lifted 203½ lb. This did not constitute a record because he did it on his fourth attempt (you only get three tries), and because in Switzerland lives a man who once lifted 230 lb. with one hand...
...Manger's records were 198 lb. in the two-arm military press, 264 lb. in the two-arm clean and jerk, 192½ lb. in the two-arm snatch...