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These are the tributes of men now in their prime who knew the man, Eliot, and his work. Their names give but inadequate impression of the width and the span of his influence. And it is not confined to these representatives of an older generation. The undergraduate of today, perhaps never having seen Dr. Eliot, is no less under the spell of his personal force than he is under the influence of his educational theories...
...prove to be the hinges of football history. Southern California stormed and shunted ; Captain Cravath kicked, Morton Rear ran, and with four minutes to play the Pacific Trojans were five points ahead. Came a run, a plunge, a 20-yard forward pass, and eleven strong Irishmen got, by the width of a single point, their reward for traveling to Los Angeles. Score: Notre Dame, 13; Southern California...
...gunboat Galveston steamed through the Panama Canal last week turned northward and cast anchor in the Nicaraguan harbor of Bluefields. Simultaneously the U. S. gunboat Tulsa anchored off Corinto on the opposite (Pacific) coast of Nicaragua. Thus U. S. cannon faced each other across the 200 mile extreme width of a nation with which the U. S. is at peace. Several hundred U. S. marines were landed with fighting equipment at Bluefields...
...Curwood as he would like to have been-is golden-haired, steel-sinewed David Rock who, through his attachment to the humanitarian Black Hunter, is suspected of treason by his foppish, malicious French overlords and lives through to wed silken-lashed Anne St. Denis only by the slim width of a tomahawk blade. History pours forth aplenty through the tale, but not more than Mr. Curwood's vast and romantic public can follow. All the characters have Souls, lofty or eternally damned. For each date set down there are at least two kisses and three burning looks. And even...
...evening recently spent at one of those clubs which make a Boston night quite too awful, did you really go? Well, I tried my best to be friendly with every one and keep on the sidelines, even hoping for a small, size six and a half, B width brawl. But nothing transpired except a gentleman whom I had to drag out of the way of two member of the metropolitan police who thought his the skin they'd love to touch. The music was good. Something had to be. I made Aubrey Beardsley drawings on the table cloth with...