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... voice . ' Well , what do you want ? " " " I come not to stultify myself in the fumes of li- quor , but to do you good ' " " The period of duns set in , and the house became a place of mystery and signals " FACING PAGE 20 90 · 202 " Oh ...
... voice . ' Well , what do you want ? " " " I come not to stultify myself in the fumes of li- quor , but to do you good ' " " The period of duns set in , and the house became a place of mystery and signals " FACING PAGE 20 90 · 202 " Oh ...
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... voice the protest of four hundred future American citizens : first , at the insidious and alarming repetition of an abhorrent article of winter food known as scrag - birds and sinkers ; second , to urge the overwhelming necessity of a ...
... voice the protest of four hundred future American citizens : first , at the insidious and alarming repetition of an abhorrent article of winter food known as scrag - birds and sinkers ; second , to urge the overwhelming necessity of a ...
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... voice from a seat behind him . ' Mc- Carthy and Stover , they say , are quite wonders . " " I've heard of Stover ; end , wasn't he ? " " Yes ; and the team's going to need ends badly . " It was the first time he had heard his name ...
... voice from a seat behind him . ' Mc- Carthy and Stover , they say , are quite wonders . " " I've heard of Stover ; end , wasn't he ? " " Yes ; and the team's going to need ends badly . " It was the first time he had heard his name ...
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... voice said at his side : 66 Got a bit of room left beside you ? " Stover shifted his coat , saying : " Certainly ; come on in . " He saw a man of twenty - two or three , with the head and shoulders of a bison , sandy hair , with a clear ...
... voice said at his side : 66 Got a bit of room left beside you ? " Stover shifted his coat , saying : " Certainly ; come on in . " He saw a man of twenty - two or three , with the head and shoulders of a bison , sandy hair , with a clear ...
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... voice there was a certain finely aristocratic quality that won rather than provoked . Stover was on his feet at once , a little embarrassed despite himself , answering hurriedly the questions ad- dressed to him . 66 Get your room over ...
... voice there was a certain finely aristocratic quality that won rather than provoked . Stover was on his feet at once , a little embarrassed despite himself , answering hurriedly the questions ad- dressed to him . 66 Get your room over ...
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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.