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... stood between the school and its tyrants . He had arrayed himself in circumstantial attire boiled shirt , high collar , and carefully dusted derby – and appeared before the faculty with solemn , responsible face no less than three ...
... stood between the school and its tyrants . He had arrayed himself in circumstantial attire boiled shirt , high collar , and carefully dusted derby – and appeared before the faculty with solemn , responsible face no less than three ...
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... stood on the open field waiting for his chance to come . " I like a fight - a good fight , " he said to himself , drawing in his breath ; and the wish seemed but a simple one , the call for the joyful shock of bodies in fair combat ...
... stood on the open field waiting for his chance to come . " I like a fight - a good fight , " he said to himself , drawing in his breath ; and the wish seemed but a simple one , the call for the joyful shock of bodies in fair combat ...
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... bison , sandy hair , with a clear , blue , steady glance , heavy hands , and a face already set in the mold of stern purpose . He stood a moment , holding a decrepit handbag stuffed to the danger point , hesitating STOVER AT YALE.
... bison , sandy hair , with a clear , blue , steady glance , heavy hands , and a face already set in the mold of stern purpose . He stood a moment , holding a decrepit handbag stuffed to the danger point , hesitating STOVER AT YALE.
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... stood watching Le Baron's strong , aristocratic figure go swinging across the dim campus in a straight , undevia- ting , well - calculated path . 66 It's awfully good of him , " he said mechanically , " awfully good . What a wonder he ...
... stood watching Le Baron's strong , aristocratic figure go swinging across the dim campus in a straight , undevia- ting , well - calculated path . 66 It's awfully good of him , " he said mechanically , " awfully good . What a wonder he ...
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... stood in his own bedroom , with no Tough McCarthy to instruct and patronize , alone at his win- dow , looking out at the sputtering arc lights with their splotchy regions of light and the busy windows of Pier- son Hall across the way ...
... stood in his own bedroom , with no Tough McCarthy to instruct and patronize , alone at his win- dow , looking out at the sputtering arc lights with their splotchy regions of light and the busy windows of Pier- son Hall across the way ...
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66 Sure Baron began Bob Story Bones Brockhurst Brocky Buck Waters campus captain chance cheer coaches crowd Cuba libre Dana deuce Dink Stover door Dudley eyes face feeling fellows fight football freshman friends fullback Gimbel girl glad glance going gone GROSSET & DUNLAP hand head idea Jean Story Jim Hunter Joe Hungerford Kelly kick knew lame ducks laugh Lawrenceville Le Baron look McCarthy mind Mory's nervous never night once pretty Princeton punt Regan Reynolds rose rush Schley senior society shaking shoulders shouted Skull and Bones smile sophomore society sort stand stood stopped STOVER AT YALE sudden suddenly surprised Swazey sweater tackle talk tell there's thing thought tion Tom Kelly Tom Regan Tommy Bain Tompkins Tough Troutman turned understand voice waiting What's window wonder Wookey Yale
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Page 330 - You don't know the big men in music; you don't know the pioneers and the leaders in any art; you don't know the great literatures of the world, and what they represent; you don't know how other races are working out their social destinies; you've never even stopped to examine yourselves, to analyze your own society, to see the difference between a civilization founded on the unit of the individual, and a civilization, like the Latin, on the indestructible advance of the family. You have no general...
Page 335 - It was not that he condemned this parent system ; he believed in it as an honest attempt to reward the best in the college life, a sort of academic legion of honor, formed not on social cleavage, but given as a reward of merit.
Page 330 - I repeat that our colleges are splendidly organized institutions for the prevention of learning? No, sir, we are business colleges, and the business of our machines is to stamp out so many business men a year, running at full speed and in competition with the latest devices in Cambridge and Princeton ! " " Brocky, you are terrific,
Page 265 - ... what American manhood means in the towns of Georgia and Texas, in the little manufacturing cities of New England, in the great West, and in the small homes of the big cities. We ought to really know one another, meet, discuss, respect each other's point of view, independence — odd ways if you wish.
Page 246 - Work for Yale, go out and slave, give up my leisure and my independence — to do what for Yale ? To keep turning the wheels of some purely inconsequential machine, or strive like a gladiator. Is that doing anything for Yale, a seat of learning?
Page 6 - I'll win," he said to himself, and his crossed arms tightened with a quick, savage contraction, as if the idea were something that could be pursued, tackled, and thrown headlong to the ground. "There's a couple of fellows from Lawrenceville coming up," said a voice from a seat behind him.