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This summary of the advantages of New York residence for the authors, both struggling and successful, is a possible explanation why the much celebrated literary exodus to Chicago never came off. The western city, not long ago, was looked upon as the intellectual center of the United States. But in spite of the fact that several famous writers claim it as their birthplace the actual percentage of the American lit Mr. Mencken says that the dial is turnerary world living in Chicago is smalling toward the south and quotes names to prove it. But Mr. Hansen's argument remains invincible...
Several thousand students left yesterday over the road and it is expected by the railroad officials that 15,000 more Harvard graduated and undergraduates will take part in the exodus today...
Fourteen seconds after the end of the Princeton game, the first CRIMSON football extra came off the press. The leaders of the exodus from the Stadium, running post-haste over the Lurz Anderson Bridge, found awaiting their arrival a line of Crimson news boys brandishing the inky papers...
...hosts of Princeton supporters are scheduled to start arriving in Cambridge today. The exodus from Tigertown is expected to become general by afternoon, and long before game time Cambridge is preparing for an overflow of Orange and Black supporters. Although the attitude prevalent in the Harvard camp is far from that of overconfidence. Harvard men are quite ready to back, their team this year and Princeton bets are finding ready takers. So far the odds on all sides rule even
...attitude of imperial New York, the most influential single state, may yet restore the wet cause to the social register of politics," whose one criterion is vote-getting. Indced, Dr. Seward's exodus from the preliminaries is a portent of the outcome. His adherents in New York are slipping over toward the wet side of the deek. The Prohibition party, as an institution, has already sunk, below the voting strength legally, necessary to maintain itself a political entity. Already, the Democratic party has hinted at an ardent wet, Governor Ritohic of Maryland, as its 1928 candidate for President...