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...tradition of bulldogs and turtle-necked sweaters, when the original Mortaritya and their golden lucks were a fragrant reality and when fence rush and freshman fraternities both flourished as glorious campus institutions. Frank is being brought up to date by Gilbert Patten, who created him under the name of Burt L. Standish. Now he will probably live in his rewritten version in Harkness Brick Court, exercise under the eagle eye of Bob Kiphuth in the new Whitney Memorial Gymnasium and snatch a toasted bun for breakfast at the new Ac Longley's, where Mrs. Graves is no longer cashier...
...onetime registrar. Adam Leroy Jones is director of admissions at Columbia; George Dobbin Brown was librarian at General Theological Seminary. Princeton teachers but not "preceptor guys" were Scientists Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Owen Willans Richardson. Variously famed are Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham (Yaleman), Novelist Maxwell Struthers Burt, Songman Sigmund Spaeth and his crew-coaching, English-teaching half-brother John Duncan, Donald Clive Stuart, adviser of the Triangle Club, Charles William Kennedy, retired chairman of the Committee on Athletics...
...your failure to give it some mention; but we have been informed that seldom has a volume of its nature received such universal commendation from the critics. To quote two reviews from the East and West, out of hundreds-or rather brief excerpts from the reviews-Struth-ers Burt in the Saturday Review of Literature writes: "It is another Trader Horn, but far better than Trader Horn and more veracious. Indeed it is minutely genuine from start to finish, which is by no means the case with the average history of the pioneer, especially when this history is autobiographical...
...name-calling speeches of the candidates are a comment upon the mental caliber of the voters. The candidates are experienced politicians and act after the fashion of lunatics in their speeches because they think that is the way to get popular sympathy and gather in the votes." Dr. George Burt Lake of Highland Park (Chicago suburb), editor of Clinical Medicine & Surgery, declared: "I have no doubt that at least one or two of the candidates are psychically abnormal." Dr. Albert Moore Barrett, professor of psychiatry* at the University of Michigan Medical School: "I am sure that the idiotic campaign speeches...
Providing that the river in front of the Weld Boat House is free from ice on Monday, Coach Burt Haines of the Freshman crews, intends to take out the Leviathan, the twenty-oared rowing barge, used every spring by Freshmen and inexperienced candidates...