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...learn from the Century Company that "The Gentleman in Pajamas," a novel by Charles Neville Buck, to be published by them this month, has for plot the following situation: A burglar, instead of gathering up availables and leaving the scene of his crime at the earliest convenient moment, settles down to live with his victim while he forces him to liquidate his estate and turn over his assets as fast as they become easily negotiable to the man who greeted him one midnight with: "All I want is all you have." The burglar meets servants, secretary, friends of his victim...
...Yale crews, which took the water at New Haven Wednesday afternoon, will probably precede the Harvard crews on the water by at least ten days. Coach Brown expects the Charles to be open the latter part of next week at the earliest, if the weather continues as it is. He added that getting on the river a week from Monday will be early...
...regard to its attitude toward the literary man-but that's another matter. Had young John Wiley, New York reared, fond of dancing, Who has tried his hand at reporting.- and will probably be a successful Writer-had young John Wiley (who saw military training only in its earliest stages-his Freshman year) been to the War in any capacity whatsoever, he could never have written The Education of Peter, Yet, his is a fresher generation, a healthier generation, an unhurt generation - a generation that should accomplish much...
...earliest known copy of a college periodical, the "Telltale", a Harvard publication of 1721, will go on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library this morning...
...woman's club gets very far without encountering the name of Percy MacKaye. He was America's most brilliant poet-playwright at a very young age. He is still that. America has no others; but Mr. MacKaye has never written a play which can touch his earliest efforts. The Canterbury Pilgrims and The Scarecrow remain his finest achievements. Too early he was entrammelled by the lure of pageantry. Too early he listened to the flattery of academicians and literary ladies. The son of a practical playwright of fame and success, he has made himself into a worshipper...