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...Ellsworth Milton Statler went to Port Huron, Mich., where Michigan Hotel Association members were in convention last week and explained the chief reason why innkeeping is not prospering. There are too many hotels. Hotels are built without adequate forethought or fore-consideration of a community's needs...
Match play began. Von Elm, weak against tall Ellsworth Augustus of Cleveland, barely managed to take the match on the 19th hole. Richard Jones, Massachusetts state champion, pressed Robert Tyre Jones hard before succumbing by one hole. M. B. Stevenson played a family match against long-driving young Roland MacKenzie. Long an intimate of the lad's parents, Mr. Stevenson sent Mrs. MacKenzie Sr. a telegram expressing profound sorrow at having been forced to eliminate her son. Francis Ouimet and Charles Evans, both former title holders, came through the early rounds with ease; they might, if Jones relapsed, meet...
...Could Walt Whitman have spent four years at Harvard and then have written 'Leaves of Grass'? Impossible." Mr. William W. Ellsworth, veteran publisher and until a few years ago president of the Century Company, advanced this question and the emphatic answer to it in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter...
...There are very few people who would-not like to have the power to write," continued Mr. Ellsworth, "and to write so that other people would want to read them, as we want to read Mark Twain and Stevenson and H. G. Wells. How can you learn to do it? I asked Barrett Wendell once,--he was a professor of English literature at Harvard for a quarter of a century, if he knew a way, and this is what he wrote...
...list of the popular English writers of the day would show more college men than non-collegians," declared Mr. Ellsworth, "but among the latter are many whose books we like: Arnold Bennett, Gilbert Chesterton, William Black, Joseph Conrad, Rider Haggard, John Masefield, George More, Eden Phillotts, Israel Zangwell, and Bernard Shaw. H. G. Wells took honors in zoology in a college of science; Robert Hichens attended a college of music; Thomas Hardy acquired an education at evening classes in King's College, London; Kipling went to the United Service College, not an institution famous for turning out literati George Bernard...