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...Bull" and "The Walrus"-hard markers, kind at heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jul. 21, 1924 | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...hard marker, strict in class and at table, kind at heart and a knock-out German prof." They call him "The Bull," for no more obvious reason than that which has for years inspired Hill School men to call Alfred G. Rolfe, long the counsellor of Hill headmasters, "The Walrus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Heads | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...seniors "the time is come" when bright college years with pleasure rife will soon be over. This is an observation, which the Walrus might make with considerable sentiment to his friend, the Carpenter, were he alive today. It is undoubtedly true just as most sentimental and Walrus-like things are true. This is probably why they are sentimental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENSE AND SENTIMENTALITY | 6/13/1924 | See Source »

...time is almost conie, as the Walrus was saying, for the Baccalaureate Sermon, the Class Day Oration, the Commencement Address, and even for the Phi Beta Kappa Oration. All the senior quarter of the college will soon celebrate a little sentimentally--its bachelorhood. And yet this brief, final period of celebration, following four years of supposed cerebration, only goes to emphasize the fact that for most men the cerebration part of a college career is of much less importance than appears on the college catalogue. What a man remembers when he is out of college is the football games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENSE AND SENTIMENTALITY | 6/13/1924 | See Source »

...mystery. Even Barnum could not dispell that. Recently, however, with the discovery of some bottle-nosed whales, which lay derelict on the shore (incapacitated. no doubt, by auto-intoxication) even the sea promises to become an open book. Only yesterday there was a report that a 4000 pound walrus was shot in the Arctic Circle, and is to be presented to the B. A. A. That may be the well-known B. A. A. or it may be a Barbers Arctic Association, in which case the wairus is of course to be used as a subject for sartorial practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FISH STORY | 11/7/1923 | See Source »

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