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...wild. Instead of matriculating at Oxford he sought, while working as a handyman around a New York saloon, to learn the art of bartending but was never deemed sufficiently adept. No matter? his poems sold. He went to Oxford in 1922 to be made a D. Litt. honoris causa. Intentionally or not the new Poet Laureate symbolizes the fact that Britain is now ruled by men with almost as little formal education as himself (Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden attended board school...
Commander Edward Ellsberg, U. S. Naval Reserve, the man who raised the sunken submarines S-51 and 54, only man to have received the Distinguished Service Medal in peacetime had conferred upon him the degree doctor of engineering, honoris causa, Aug. 24, by the University of Colorado, the institution he left in 1910 to enter the U. S. Naval Academy...
Inasmuch as the Twentieth Century abounds in paradoxes, it is not the vogue to express either amazement or bewilderment over the sometimes irreconcilable phenomena of modernity. Still credulity and belief have their limitations and even the imagination talks when asked to solve the enigmatical causa causans of the enforcement of compulsory golf at Annapolis. It is not unassuming to picture natty mid-shipment pursuing the elusive golf pellet over the briny billows of the deep. No ardent enthusiast of the green has falled, at some moment or other, to meditate upon the possibility of a rolling sea suddenly solidified...
...McPherson, athletic professionalism at the University of Southern California, high class prostitution at Hollywood, California's "Reds," labor college? anti-syndicalism "outrages" - structurally built to reproduce life .-.s Mr. Sinclair has seen it lived in Southern California, and mentally f oundationed - or undermined - to show Capitalism as the causa of all that is horrid in the Golden West, Communism as the hope of all that is hopable there by Author Sinclair and the woeful workers whose Moses he is. Like many bores, Mr. Sinclair is genial; like more, he has investi gated his subject. So the charac ters...
...University of Vermont, of which Mrs. Coolidge is an alumna, goes her latest portrait, by De Laszlo. The painting shows her in the academic robes of a Doctor of Laws, causa honoris...