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Since the mysterious obstruction of the Jester's elm last week, Bob Lampoon its guardian and water carrier standing in Joco parents has been a victim to melancholia some say hypochondria Yesterday breaking a long silence he uttered a few words to a CRIMSON news gatherer...
When dwellers on Mt. Auburn Street awoke yesterday morning to their customary activities, they were startied by the sight of the little en-caged elm, that grew so debonaire in front of the Lampoon's front steps, hanging over its bars, bent and broken...
...business-like London gentleman who set him to work in an insurance office. Or that now, having perfected his draughtsmanship until it is a byword, he lives amid Sussex downs with a wife who also draws, in a cottage of crazy-quilt architecture, under an old beech, an elm, and near a business-like workroom devoid of all "arty" furnishings. Sitting at his drawing board with his round, glittering spectacles and clean-shaven ascetic countenance, he looks very much like a village deacon, gnome-like brow, repository of his inspiration and technique, is revealing feature. Years ago drew political cartoons...
...Shanghai Gesture-Florence Reed back at the corner of Hung Chow and Elm streets. Flesh-creeping hokum of the better sort...
There was no great crisis in this match, no moment that spectators could record in their diaries. Memorable instants there were to be sure-Von Elm chipping with his mashie around and over a stymie to win the second hole; Jones failing by six inches to make the hole in one; Jones conceding a hard putt to Van Elm because the latter was bothered by cries from the gallery; Von Elm returning this courtesy; Jones carefully lining a putt on the 17th which he must sink if the match was to go on . . . and Jones missing that putt and standing...