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...Boston and Cambridge was so great that four years later College authorities forbade students to march as Harvard men. This was easily taken care of. The Class of 1873 tramped all over the neighborhood with huge transparencies, warning, "Whoever says we are Harvard Seniors is a Liar and a Villain...
...feels and gets done, and that the perpetually wrangling players are important not so much of themselves, but because the whole success or failure of the attempt depends on these people. The attempt is really the story, and the "background" is really the hero of the piece, and its villain...
...Keltner spared Boston the aesthetically unpleasant experience of a city series. We say aesthetically unpleasant because the horrid fact of the matter is that the majority of Boston rooters are Red Sex partisans, and a city series would have found Billy Southworth's gallant crew in the position of villain in the piece...
...made a deeper impression on Thakin Nu than the stern tenets of Marxism. Nu tells a little story to explain his attitude. "The rebels," he says, "remind me of an actor playing the tiger in the famous Burmese drama Mai U. While waiting for his cue to chase the villain he fell asleep, only to wake up suddenly in the middle of the next play, where Prince Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha) was setting out on his charger to follow the life of an ascetic. Thinking he was still in the previous play, the sleepy actor chased savagely after the noble horse...
...villain in Nu's little story is, of course, the British Empire. Buddha is the Burmese nation. The noble horse is presumably Thakin...