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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Charing Cross, London, or those of Oxford and Cambridge, or the cases of books along the Seine. Here even the library stacks are closed to students, and yet one of the surest ways to become interested in books is to go directly to well-stocked shelves and to discover unknown titles and authors...
Today's contest with Penn. State is fraught with special significance for the eleven. The power of the team is an unknown quantity which will today be disclosed. Last year the University was fortunate enough to tie Penn. State 13 to 13 in the last few minutes of play. This year the Pennsylvania college boasts an eleven which has a record of five straight victories and no defeats, and which is rated even stronger than last year...
...culture, for the reason that it is circumscribed and includes only a narow part of the stream of thought. For a lawyer to look through the microscope of a man of science increases his means of culture, for it broadens his ideas by revealing to his sight things before unknown. But the scientific man who can see only through his microscope has a very restricted vision of the world; and the same thing is true of every pursuit when restricted to its own limited field. When Charles Darwin said that in his later life he lost interest in almost everything...
Women, the war, athletics, and personalities comprise the range of subjects. Among the first named, virtue is apparently unknown. The weaker sex is subject to slandering remarks whose sole aim is to fill a gap in the conversation. When the talk wanders to the war, someone says "I hope those damned ------ get licked," and the subject is closed. Even on athletics where the interest is keenest, desultory remarks and blasphemies on Yale are the main element. Interspersing everything are biting personalities on another's physical or mental qualities. A tone of affected cynicism crowns the whole...
...Middendorf '16, number 6, was out of the boat for some time last week on account of boils, but is now in place again. The men may show great form and stamina in the regatta on Friday, but they are at present more or less of an unknown quantity.Cox., McLane; Stroke, Morse; 7, Wilman; 6, Meyer; 5, Sturtevant (captain); 4, Sheldon; 3 Low; 2, Bennitt; bow, Coe. THE YALE FIRST CREW PRACTISING ON THE THAMES...