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Though he wrote many books (British Radicalism, 1791-1797; The Course of Europe Since Waterloo; Mr. Gladstone), Hall never cared much for footnote scholarship. He was primarily a teacher, always cheerful and always ready to chat with anyone who happened by. "Just a minute till I turn on the electricity," he would say as he fumbled with his hearing aid. But teaching, to him, was more than reviving the past, and he could never talk about a favorite era or a favorite hero without drawing a moral. One of his favorites was the 18th century ("More broad-minded cusses were...
...Following the Equator, Mark Twain described the Boer as: "deeply religious, profoundly ignorant, dull, obstinate, bigoted ...proud of his Dutch and Huguenot origin and its religious and military history . . . He has stood stock still in South Africa for two centuries and a half, and would like to stand still till the end of time...
Then the Elephants gave it a power them, and began to gain on the Puritans. Fletcher put the stroke up gradually till it reached a 38 at the finish. Eliot caught Winthrop and for the last 20 strokes the Elephants were puling ahead. They crossed the line half a length ahead going away...
...Yale team is strong this year and should give the freshmen a hard game. Though it won its last till from Williams. 8 to 4, the Yard ten is going to have to play better to beat the Elis. The Blue squad beat a fine Exerted team, and also Deerfield Academy, both teams that smashed the Crimson...
John Ringling North lives as much like his uncle as he can. He, too, sleeps till noon or later, and is torpid and drowsy till evening. By midnight he is fully awake, and his best hours run on from then till 5 or 6. Around the circus he wears riding clothes, but towards evening he assumes a somber elegance. In New York he goes on the town dressed like a career diplomat, sporting a cane or tightly rolled umbrella, black hat in the Anthony Eden style, gloves carried but not worn and suits cut in the English fashion...