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Anathemata are to him: "Pish Posh!" he labels in a Rage The writings of that Worthy Sage, That Man of Superhuman Brain, The Syndicated Doctor Crane, And loudly voices his Dislike For the Reverend Doctor H. van Dyke...
...successively commandered the whaling steamers, Jessie H. Freeman, Belvidere, Navarch, and Bowhead. It was on the latter that he was frozen in for thirty months close to the north pole. He and his crew were saved form starvation only by the superhuman efforts of the Eskimos. On this voyage as on many others, Captain Cook was accompanied by his wife...
...more will the Harvard student homeward bound with his bulging suitcase, his rattling golf sticks, his tennis racket, and proverbial musical instrument, be seen tearing frantically through the human swarm on Summer street. No more will he have to perform superhuman feats of line-plunging, of long distance running, of athletic leaping over intervening horses, wagons, and automobiles, only to arrive as the last car of his train rolls majestically from the South Station. The great work is complete at last; science is vindicated. The oldest Senior who said gloomily that it would never be finished is a prophet without...
...that will long be remembered by Harvard men. With a Yale team spurred on by the goad of former crushing defeats only twelve yards from a touchdown, the Crimson line withstood eight frantic onslaughts, while the fighting spirit of Harvard reduced the gains from yards to foot. Such a superhuman stand was a tribute to both the coaches and players of the 1916 team...
Yale defeated Princeton Saturday in a game replete with the thrills of the spectacular runs and passes of the Yale eleven throughout the first three periods and the almost superhuman fight of the Princeton attack in the last quarter. Throughout the first three periods the Yale backs ripped the Princeton line to shreds, smashing through the opponents' defence for consistent gains of considerable length, baffling the New Jersey team with the double and triple lateral passes which she has so successfully advanced this year, and out punting Princeton on every exchange of kicks. The work of the backfield approached perfection...