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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyss...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of S... ...outheast Asia 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SIN... ......................................................... 30 FEMALE EQUALITY AND ECONOMIC USEFULNESS ...................................................... ................................................ 51 AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS ....................................................................... ...dle class couple in my country was more than $100,000 to get the child to college age. When considering the costs of food and lodging, clothing, me... ...s millions to raise a child through high school. And to send that child to college doubles that. While doing its best to discourage an increa... ...ption, moving traffic violations, even sport participation. Of course some sports carry much higher dangers than others. On the plus side, we have po... ... at retirement age want to work. A friend of mine at the California State University joyfully goes to work every day at 85. He is an outstanding teac... ...te sports team. I met a world class medical professor in his 80s at Tromso University in Norway. He was forced to retire at 70 but works daily at his...

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...tion Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ..., but Lord! you’re get- ting as fussy as Verona. Ever since she got out of college she’s been too rambunctious to live with—doesn’t know what she want... ...worker or some damn thing! Lord, and Ted is just as bad! He wants to go to college, and he doesn’t want to go to college. Only one of the three that k... ...des about duty and sex and God and the unconquerable bagginess of the gray sports-suit she was now wearing. Ted—Theodore Roosevelt Babbitt—a decorativ... ...bby four-flushers.” His friends, she indicated, were “disgusting imitation sports, and horrid little shrieking ignorant girls.” Further: “It’s disgust...

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Excerpt: Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith.

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... Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...n, the fellows fancied, was for get- ting the school into a journal of the Sports. He used to read one sent him by a sporting officer of his name, and... ...ar sky was overhead. He was the Rowsley of the old boyish delight in field sports, reminiscences of prowlings and trappings in the woods, gropings alo... ... ev- ery form of noble pride, gets cajoled like a twenty-year-old yahoo at college! Do you imagine it? To suppose of a man cherishing the name of Ormo... ...rgely, Lady Charlotte. Opportunity has been want- ing at French and German colleges.” “It’s only a large and a close and a pretty long study of them t...

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...ked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ...sylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...I shall soon part with Agatha; she is going to Oxford.” “Indeed! T o which College? I have a daughter at Oxford, and a niece just leaving Cambridge. S... ...mpathy and amusement. Girls of seventeen and sixteen do not delight in the sports of nine- year-olds, except in the case of special pets and protegees... ...arnest,” said Agatha, repenting a little that she had told before Vera the college jokes over what had leaked out of Gillian’s reception of Ernley Arm... ...od, 151 Yo n g e who was known to be a champion in Ceylon in all athletic sports, especially polo and cricket. Tall and well made, he had been devote...

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Excerpt: Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

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... of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attending the birth and history of James Stewart of Ardvoirlich, by whose hand the unfortunate nobleman fell....

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, an...

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