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...Courtney's "Good-bye, Vera," is a hair-raising "Crook" story, with a beautiful girl, a diamond necklace, handsome young villains, hand-to-hand struggles, and a detective flashed on the screen in rapid succession. It is melodramatic-but successfully melodramatic...

Author: By R. E. Connell ., | Title: English 22 Book Deserves Success | 5/14/1915 | See Source »

...Crook 1G. spoke very convincingly for the negative, and J. T. L. Jeffries '15 upheld the case of the affirmative well. R. H. Pass '15, for the camps, and P. Campos '15 and A. Fisher '15 against them were also effective speakers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORUM UPHELD MILITARY CAMPS | 4/3/1915 | See Source »

...Each speaker will be allowed twelve minutes for a main speech in which to present his argument, and five minutes for rebuttal. Dean B. S. Hurlbut will preside at the debate and the judges have been selected as follows: Professor F. J. Goodnow of Columbia; Professor J. W. Crook of Amherst; and Professor W. F. Willcox of Cornell. While the judges are reaching a decision at the close of the debate, the University Glee Club will sing. Immediately after the debate, the University Debating Council will give a banquet in the Union, to which both teams, the Presiding Officer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIANGULAR DEBATE TONIGHT | 3/21/1910 | See Source »

...University Debating Council has selected the following judges for the Harvard-Princeton debate in Sanders Theatre on March 21: Professor J. W. Crook, of Amherst; Professor F. J. Goodnow, of Columbia; Professor W. F. Wilcox, of Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judges Chosen for Princeton Debate | 3/2/1910 | See Source »

Very ancient, indeed, and sometimes very flat, is the wit (N.B. "The Evolution of the Freshman's Letter Home"), yet the number is entertaining, nevertheless. "Mediaeval Gastronomy" is cleverly versified, and illustrated con amore. Even the account of the bold dash of Dr. Crook to the North Pole (now at last definitely located at Perkins Hall) though based on a joke never very funny and surely as old as the hall in question is undeniably amusing. As usual, the drawings are better than the other matter. The centre-page by Steel '11, is not only witty, but really refreshingly thoughtful...

Author: By Hermann Hagrdorn., | Title: Review of Current Lampoon | 10/6/1909 | See Source »

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