Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond is truly sorry that his old favorite Edgar Allen Poe did not write after 1870, for although he has always enjoyed the author's short stories with a chill of horror, let it be said, nevertheless, that he would like to have some authority tell the story of Poe's death in a gutter. The Vagabond feels that, inasmuch as that is a very possible end for him, he would like to know that geniuses before him have met the same fate...
...Boston Lacrosse Club's main strength lies in its defense which is centered around J. D. Jeffers '26 and Allen Reed '26, who was captain of the University team for his last two years in college. The third star of their team is W. E. Nightingale '15, who was also a Harvard captain. With the loss of L. L. Wood who played goal last year the team has been greatly handicapped. This will be the first scheduled game for the Boston Lacrosse Club team...
...listen in on radio concerts, attend movies, use electric refrigerators and high-grade plumbing, eat trademarked breakfast foods. The river is not the Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled The Spirit of Egypt and, instead of merely running for office, flew for it, to Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak...
...intercollegiate convention to take place late in May. Twenty-one colleges will be invited to participate. Barnhart appointed an executive committee consisting of representatives of Harvard, Radcliffe, Wellesley, Boston University, Smith, Amherst and Vassar. Barnhart, besides being the Harvard representative, is chairman of this committee, of which Miss Gloria Allen of Smith is Secretary...
Authoress Corbett has written an absorbing and unique biography by means of a series of short dramatic scenes and purported dialogues?between Whitman and others and betwee Allen Poe to "two Dartmouth Seniors." The book presents a graphic account of a man who wished to live his life into his poetry...