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...wholesale prostitution of the colleges first for the war and then for the peace which denied the glory of that war. He shows us professorial chairs being stuffed with industrial moneys, unorthodox belief being roughly wiped out by college officials under pressure from above. The whole era of Mencken, Babbitt, the hip flask and the Charleston is seen with as great a clarity as that afforded by Mr. Allen's now almost classic "Only Yesterday". This part of Wechsler's book is a vivid and illuminating bit of journalistic history...
Letters were awarded to Louis A. Babbitt 1GB, George H. A. Clowes, Jr. '37, Hayden Channing '37, Frederick J. Fayette 2L, Adrian S. Fisher 1L, Herbert H. Gunter 1L, Charles K. Howard '35, Robert H. Knapp '36, Frederick L. Leonard '37, Jose M. Mayorga 2GB, Joseph McGinn 1GB, Spencer P. Oottinger 1G, Austin W. Scott '37, Bernard C. Sendall 1G, Geoffroy L. Stagg 1G, Chalmers E. Sweeney '35. Scott received the Bothner Cup, awarded annually to players learning the game in America who has shown greatest general improvement within the past year...
...forwards and hard-running backs gave James the Chan e to score. Holton made the kick good, giving New York a 5-0 lead. It was not until Duffus had scored after a sideline run and Holton had again added the points that Harvard retaliated with a score by Babbitt. The second half saw Harvard putting on the pressure to stop the invaders, while Meiklejohn added three points to the Crimson score by making good a penalty kick...
...Replaces Babbitt...
...also learned yesterday that the appointment of Philippe J. F. Baldensperger Wednesday as professor of Modern Comparative Literature is largely designed to fill the gap left by the late Irving Babbitt '89, whose death removed Harvard's chief figure in the field of French literature...