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Cortland Field Bishop bought the American Galleries five years ago. His interest in art auctions went back to the days when his father had taken him to the sales at Chickering Hall and he had felt for the first time the insidious excitement and the delicious thrill of bidding for beautiful things. Since then, he has dropped in at many auctions, adding to his private collection of French books, manuscripts, prints, and etchings. Had his father never taken him to Chickering Hall, Cortland Bishop would probably have been an inventor. He surprised his neighbors at Lenox, Mass., by buying...
This inducement to college newspaper work is evident in the secret pleasure a candidate experiences in hearing his stories discussed by his classmates, or in the thrill of knowing that he is the repository of important facts of which the ordinary student is as yet completely ignorant. Both give him a feeling of superiority, none the less gratifying because realized only by himself. There is no glory, no applause--no one is less noticed as he hurries through the streets than the quiet, inconspicuous candidate--it is merely the satisfaction of feeling that he alone of so many hundreds...
...deeply regret the breach in athletic relations and the loss of the thrill that came with every contest against Princeton, but even more keenly do I regret that the fault in the matter appears to have been chiefly Harvard...
...stage that night something happened. Faust was given in English, by an all-American cast, and given so intelligently, with such complete concession to the beauty of the whole, that Washington, dull musically, waxed enthusiastic and fairly hugged itself in the thrill of a new discovery. It was a Faust rejuvenated, lifted well out of the operatic rut, a Faust as true to the spirit of Goethe's poem as to Gounod's music. There was no portly prima donna past her prime to parade as the guileless Marguerita, no heroic stage devil preposterously horned and tailed...
...smile, resting on a foundation of sincerity, is one of the most valuable things in the world. It cheers when nothing else would make an impression. It gives a thrill of which no human agency is capable. A smile has changed the whole course of a human life. A smile serves as a guidepost at a turning point for a man who is hesitating at the intersection of two paths. A smile is the sun that dissipates the clouds of despair. It is just the ray of light that many a soul needs to make life seem preferable to death...