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...Duchess of Hamilton, inspired by seeing her son, Marquis of Douglas, "pummel" the "Bermondsey Pet," professional pugilist, in a six-round contest, decided that international disputes ought to be settled by fisticuffs. Said she: "As I watched the fight the thought uppermost in my mind was, what a pity we cannot revert to the Viking days when tribal disputes were settled by fights between picked men. If we could only choose 100 boxers from each side and let them decide, how much better it would be than awful war. . . . Boxing teaches young men to take hard knocks, and self-control...
...Olga wrote it last year and played it for the first time last week. It is obviously an "actory" part, conceived by one more cunning in stage interpretation than in stage creation. Yet through it runs an uneven strain of fierce vitality. For the moments when this strain is uppermost the play is valuable...
...matter uppermost in his mind, probably, would in any case not be the question of passing his idle hours, but of keeping his hours from being idle. Joseph Hergesheimer solved the problem quite simply. He would take ten blank books, and write his own literature to order...
What course must the Senior pursue in order to get rid of his household effects in the most efficient way? The natural impulse is to take them to the man for whom they seem to be logically intended--the second-hand furniture dealer. And this thought-would surely be uppermost in the minds of those who are leaving, were it not that Economics A had so forcibly impressed upon them the enormous advantage of doing away with the middleman. So another course suggests itself: let the departing Senior dispose of his furniture directly to the Sophomore...
...understandable; in fact it expresses a noble ideal, and since the committee is in an influential position, its words must be heeded. Unfortunately, to our way of thinking, the conception of such a memorial seems to indicate a confusion of relative values. In the fear of putting utilitarian motives uppermost, the committee goes too far to the other extreme, and forgets that however fine abstract memories may be, and however eager the University is to express its gratitude in the most ideal terms, still there is a higher ideal--the humanitarian. To perpetuate the Past is a purpose with which...