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...dozen new guises, tricked out in quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest) and "Unborn Words." The last named is- to use its own theory illustratively -deluciatingly quippant...
...Weston, Professor and Mrs. Walter Siltz, Professor and Mrs. J. L. Lowes, Professor and Mrs. J. T. Murray, Professor and Mrs. J. S. P. Tatlock, Professor and Mrs. F. N. Robinson, Professor and Mrs. A. F. Whittem, Professor and Mrs. E. K. Rand, Professor and Mrs. Bliss Perry, Professor and Mrs. B. S. Hurlburt, and Professor and Mrs. W. C. Greene...
...office of Treasurer; Charles Allen Smart of Forest Hills, N. Y., was elected to the office of Poet; Almon Goodwin Cooke of New York City was elected to the office of Odist; Edward Campbell Aswell of Nashville, Tenn., was elected to the office of Orator; Elmer Jared Bliss Jr. of Boston was elected to the office of Ivy Orator; Kenneth Morse Rogers of Dorchester was elected to the office of Chorister...
...MARSHALS Marion Adolphus CheekJoseph Carlton McGlone Thayer Cumings William Ichabod Nichols Nathaniel Saltonstall Howe Stanley DeJongh Osborne John James Maher Willard Learoyd Tibbetts FOR TREASURER Richard Hinckley Field John Nickerson Watters FOR ORATOR Edward Campbell Aswell Chester Tevis Lane Edward John Metzdorf FOR IVY ORATOR Elmer Jared Bliss Jr. Walter Dumeaux Edmonds FOR POET Ralph Sargent Bailey Charles Allen Smart FOR ODIST Almon Goodwin Cooke Howard Nott Doughty FOR CHORISTER Harold Robertson Jones Kenneth Morse Rogers
Elmer Jared Bliss Jr., of Boston, Walter Dumaux Edmonds of New York City...