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...custom of giving prizes as reward for meritorious work dates back indefinitely into antiquity, and those awarded to University undergraduates are almost as ancient as is the University itself. It was in year 1, A.V.C. (ab universitate condita), that Edward Hopkins, a London merchant, established the first prize "to give encouragement in those foreign plantations for the breeding up of hopeful youths, for the public service of their country in future times"; and from his legacy the "Deturs" are given each year, in the form of books for those men who, for the first time, have attained "group one" ranking...
...elusively symbolic. The combination is a shade trying. And there is an irritating lack of humor. It is hard to sympathize with anyone who takes himself as seriously as do both Mr. Anderson and his hero. It is altogether too easy to allow one's sense of the ab- surdity of a good many of its episodes to cloud one's perception of the beauty underlying them. It is hard to read it through with a straight face. The Critics. Many Marriages appeared first in The Dial It was hailed by the extremely advanced as another...
...reason for believing that what brings pleasure to the musician is any higher or nobler than that which brings pleasure to the normal human being," etc.; assuming of course that all musicians are either ab or sub-normal, and that no normal person can be a musician at heart, whether or not, a professional. he considers mediocrity of taste to be an excuse for itself, and that nothing further is necessarily to be desired. But good taste is the result of cultivation. Few persons are born with a natural appreciation of Wagner or Debussy, any more than for Velasquez...
Howard C. Knotts Occ.. an American Ace, is now acting president in the ab...
...BROWN. ab. r. bh. po. a. e.Porter, s.s. 5 0 0 6 4 0Peckham, r.f. 4 1 2 1 0 0Moody, r.f. 0 1 0 0 0 0 0Coulter, 2b. 4 0 1 0 2 0Weeks, 1b. 4 2 2 10 1 1Hall, l.f. 4 1 2 0 0 0Knight, p. 3 0 0 1 4 1Eatson, p. 0 0 0 0 0 0Samson, c.f. 5 0 2 2 0 0Nelson, 3b. 5 1 2 1 2 0Erickson, c. 3 0 1 6 1 0 -- -- -- -- -- --Total, 37 6 12 27 14 2HARVARD. ab. r. bh. po. a. e.Hallowell...