Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competition which will be afforded during the trip will give the players a valuable background of experience for a strenuous season beginning with the resumption of classes after the recess. Captain Plaffmann and Briggs are playing better this year than ever before, and Ingraham continues, to be the same brilliant performer. While it is rather early to make any predictions concerning the outcome of the season, Coach Cowles is particularly optimistic. The outcome of this trip will serve to Indicate the possibilities for a successful season...
...Confusion", a novel by J. G. Cozzens '26, is the biography of Cerise D'Atree. More significantly, it is a record of life as she found it: superficially, a tapestry of intricate, brilliant, and picturesque detail; inwardly, desperate and futile. There is nothing sordid or even tragic in any scene of this story to account for the complete disenchantment with life, which is the ultimate effect of the book as a whole. Its scenes are full of charm and delight and beauty, through which moves an extraordinary variety of real persons, most of whom accept the world at its face...
...chance of captaining a victorious basketball team depend chiefly upon the development of players who can fill the shoes of Captain Lewis Gordon '24, J. L. Rudofsky '24, and I. G. Black '24. Gordon has for three years been the offensive mainstay of the team, and Rudofsky's brilliant defensive play was the feature of almost every game at Hemenway last winter. All three will be greatly missed...
...intercollegiate hammer throw record has been practicing every afternoon behind the Stadium. He graduated from Bowdoin last year and is now studying at Tufts. His 181 foot 6 1-2 inch hammer throw in the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet last spring was the most brilliant individual performance...
Colonel W. S. Browning, Professor of Military Science and Tactics in the University is one of the most prominent military educators in the country. His brilliant war record earned for him a position as advisor on the Supreme War Council at the Peace Conference, where he served throughout the entire proceedings. Since he has been stationed at the University, he has been instrumental in developing an unusual interest in the military unit, both as a means of training, and for athletic exercise...