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...Have college men a sense of humor? Sometimes it's too keen. Their reaction to humor is not disciplined enough. They come to a show to have a good time and spoil the amusement by being too exuberant and laughing in advance of the joke...
...looked as if he would never make a soldier. Alastair made an almost unforgivable blunder when he turned down the chance of marrying his colonel's daughter and fell in love with his cousin, Katherine St. Quentyn. Worse, he took advantage of Katherine's pity to spoil her good name. Luckily the Crimean War had begun or the St. Quentyns would have certainly called him out. Alastair tried his best to be killed before Sevastopol but only succeeded in losing an arm, while every St. Quentyn who might have pistoled him went down to death and glory. Home...
...English 33, both large survey courses. That the lecturer would not know as much about each author or each period as do the present lecturers would be no disadvantage; such a vast field can only be covered in broad outline, and the man who knows everything is prone to spoil his canvas sketching in details. The shining lights of the English department should be relieved of the irksome task of lecturing to Freshmen and Sophomores, and Freshmen and Sophomores should be relieved of the irksome task of listening to them. Somewhere the man who can make English 28 as good...
...there comes into Lola's life, with a suddenness that she fails to find suspicious, something beautiful. He is Gifford Middleton of the Boston Middletons. He tells her that her hair is like a field of silver daisies. Lola is broken-hearted when her father and brother spoil the Middleton romance by scandalizing the Middleton parents-until it turns out that all the Middletons are really down-at-heel actors hired to shame Lola into
...founder who left Harvard College because of faulty eyesight, but Richard Henry Dana Jr., a member of a distinguished Boston family. He shipped before the mast, while an undergraduate of Harvard, to cure a weakness of the eyes which threatened to spoil his career. On his return he graduated from Harvard and became an eminent lawyer. Two Years Before the Mast, a book he wrote describing his voyage, made him famous...