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Maryland. In 1919 Democrat Albert Cabell Ritchie defeated a Baltimore criminal lawyer named Harry Nice to be elected Governor. Last week handsome aristocratic "Bert" Ritchie again defeated Republican Nice?to be elected Governor of the Free State for the fifth consecutive term. Thus set was a U. S. record: no Governor other than Maryland's Ritchie has in the nation's history held the favor of his electorate for five straight terms through 19 straight years...
...dash down the three-quarter mile course, which ended at the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, was run off at 4.30 o'clock when at Bert Haine's command the 64 oars hit the water. A cross wind made the blade work sloppy, but the first-year men crossed the finish line after 4 minutes and 10 seconds, with the third Varsity and 150 pound crews coming in not far behind. Fourth, fifth, and sixth positions were taken by three crews of inexperienced Freshmen, stroked by Myer, Bennett, and McClennan. The tail-enders were the two other boats of experienced Freshmen...
...Illinois farm boy, Jackson Reynolds went west to Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...
Without women, the plot nags at the theological doubts of two younger Fathers. Suddenly all doubts vanish when a miracle seems to have cured a Father who has had paralysis. But the doubts reappear, concentrated in the person of the hero (Bert Lytell), when he learns under the secrecy of the confessional that the miracle was no miracle but only a case of courage induced by a happy dream. Since the Father Rector (William Ingersoll) has designated him to plead the case for the "miracle" and the canonization of the house's founder at Rome, Bert Lytell's faith...
...read through at a sitting, it will prove to the plainest reader that, in Poet Van Doren's words, Stuart is "a rare poet for these times . . . both copious and comprehensible." Some samples of his comprehensible copiosities: Where are the friends of youth I miss ? Elmer and Bert, Oscar, and Jim and John; . . . And where are Lizzie, Lute, and Jack and Mack! They, too, have gone and they will not come back...