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...Ingalis, Jr. '35, Morton McMichael '33, W. S. Emmet '34, E. A. Wye, Jr. '34, M. L. Baughman '35, J. H. Wilkinson '35, and Alden Bryan '35. Freshmen players: A. C. Helmhelz 3rd, G. G. Gildden, R. W. Gilder, J. A. Roberts, A. C. Reggie, R. L. Bentley, 2nd. and L. S. Shaw...
...Freshman players will be: A. C. Helmholz, R. W. Gilder, G. G. Glidden, J. A. Roberts, G. S. Franklin, A. C. Reggio, L. S. Shaw, R. L. Bentley, J. F. Donovan...
...emblazoned with succeeding generations, to discover that the story begins in 1812 and ends in 1931, and to locate at the back one of those genealogical charts which have so often, of recent date, proclaimed an imitation of the form but scarcely the estimable ability of Mr. Galsworthy. Miss Bentley's story relates, to be brief, the textile history of Yorkshire during the nineteenth century. Of central interest, naturally, is the development of the conflict between capital and labor. And this is handled, as one might expect, through the use of conflicting families...
...Miss Bentley has obviously undertaken a discouraging task. For if her book is to remain, properly speaking, a novel, her characters must secure, per se, the interest and affection of the reader. They must not, as in so many works of this type, become submerged either in her sympathy for the oppressed, or by the difficulty of finding something interesting, something new for each succeeding generation...
...last few pages are hurried, if Miss Bentley permits David to utter lengthy banalities on his family history, one must overlook these, and forgive her. The remainder of the task is well done. The general effect of the book is to send one scurrying to his own genealogy. Perhaps that is all that one should require of any Saga...