Word: barnumism
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Bigger than Barnum's (Ralph Lewis-Viola Dana). The story has probably been told before of the tight-rope walker who displayed his talent in private life and rescued a beleaguered heroine. This particular walker walked a telegraph wire into a burning building to complete the rescue. Previously he had refused to perform a certain difficult stunt in the circus and was branded a coward. The circus scenes are fair, the climax exciting, and the whole picture dangerously close to average...
...seven men who won their letters only two graduate. Captain E. S. Stimpson '27. Dwight Barnum '27, J. A. Hutchinson Jr. '28, Joseph Morrill Jr. '28, and E. D. Cole '27 are the men who will return next year. A. R. Parker '26 and Richard Keepe 4 E.S are lost to the team by graduation...
...stage production, and the players, though well known, are not stars of the greatest magnitude. This is distinctly bad from the advertising point of view. The publicity manager being a man of some circumspection probably thought so too Hence the little experiment as to the exact truth contained in Barnum's casual observation...
Stimpson (H.), defeated Wattles (Y.), 5 and 3; Barnum (H.) defeated Flynn (Y.), 4 and 3; Harvard (Y.) defeated Morrill (H.), 4 and 3; Parker (Y.) defeated Hutchinson (H.), 1 and 3; Stoddard (Y.) defeated Parker (H.), 7 and 5; Keene (H.) defeated Lanman...
Wattles and Flynn (Y.) defeated Stimpson and Barnum (H.), 1 up; Morritt and Hutchinson (H.) defeated Haviland and Parker, (Y.) 1 up (19 holes): Parker and Cole (H.) defeated Stoddard and Lanman...