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...always" successfully. Two cups of tea and a cigar satisfy. Ed Wynn, but Billy Sunday demands griddle cakes. Mary Garret Hay is perhaps the most unusual. Breakfast appeals to her "not only physically, but esthetically". She ecstatically insists that "a fine bunch of grapes or a golden orange, crisp rolls, a dainty pat of butter, and good coffee sending up a delicious aroma, etc., etc., etc. . . . constitute a breakfast that is perfect for civilized man". But though these "artistic tastes" do catch the eye, it is yet undiscovered whether Captain Abdullah or athletic Ed' Wynn is the more afflicted with...
Madame Matzenauer, one of the returning artists, is favorably remembered for her rendition of songs by Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, and Schubert when she sang with the Orchestra three years ago., Alfred Cortot, of crisp and crystal tone, played the third Beethoven Concerto in C-minor at the concerts in the season of 1919-1920, when Albert Spalding also played the Dvorak violin concerto. Moiseiwitsch, whose "discovery" was the sensation of the year in 1920, played the Schumann concerto in A-minor two years ago. Most of the other soloists are old friends to the regular concert-goers: Suffice...
Fought to a standstill in the first two periods, tieing the score with forty-five seconds to spare in the final session, trailing by two goals when the whistle blew at the end of two crisp over-time periods--such was the record of the Crimson Ramblers in their hard-fought but losing struggle with the Boston College Eagles at the Arena last night...
...perfect physical condition as can be desired. The training is more interesting and varied than track work, in that it is over new country all of the time. Cinder tracks differ only slightly, but every cross-country course is different. Then too, the training is during a season of crisp, cool weather. There is a cross-country training table at the Varsity Club; there are the trips to other colleges to look forward to; and what should appeal to every red-blooded man more than anything else, a very good chance of making a Major Sport...
...spirited, if abrupt, review of Mr. Mencken's new anthology of Prejudices, the magazine makes healthful music. The Editorials reveal a temperate pulse; they concern undergraduates; they do not fall to charm our graver blood. And though we miss the Brief Case, with its crisp, incisive commentary on Harvard happenings, there is no pause...