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...University resembles the old College Humor, even to the conventional Rolf Armstrong cover. It includes a dozen pages of campus humor bought from undergraduate funnybooks; a novelette and a short story; a profusion of cartoons; sports by famed Grantland Rice; humorous sketches by such surefire Life contributors as Robert Benchley, Margaret Fishback, Gurney Williams, Montague Glass, Sam Hellman. Good feature : a portfolio of informal pictures of campus celebrities...
...sell him things, but keenly alert for interesting and constructive ways to invest his money. He lost a lot two years ago backing a musical show for his artist friend Peter Arno, but the experience did not diminish his liking for and friendship with such characters as Robert Benchley and Donald Ogden Stewart. His aunt, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhurst, backed The New Republic and Asia. Nephew Jock owns a substantial slice of Polo. Lately he was reported investigating the possibilities of founding a new cinema company...
...affair is to be an informal one, and will be followed by a two-fold entertainment, literary and musical. In the former, Professor K. B. Murdock '16, master of the House, will read selections, probably from Benchley, and P. G. E. Miller, tutor, will render a slight skit in the manner of Edgar Lee Masters, which he has procured from "a certain mysterious source...
...venerable Copey, one of the better known of Harvard's traditions, has given a reading in the Union just before the Christmas recess each year since the building opened. Last year he read selections from the Bible, Thackeray, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, and Robert Benchley '12, one of his former students, to an enthusiastic crowd of Freshmen...
...Copey's" Monday Evenings are never to be forgotten by those who have attended them, be he a plain Tom Jones or Bob Brown or one of the famed Copeyites who include Heywood Broun, Robert Benchley, Walter Lippmann, Conrad Aiken, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Dos Passes, Robert Emmett Sherwood, the late John Reed, the late Alan Seeger, the late John Macy. There is a Charles Townsend Copeland Association, with members all over the world. Every year it brings "Copey" to the Harvard Club in Manhattan, where he reads to a group which may include John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William...