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...Providence and the Alumni a puzzle, and fell from 420 to 358 in the past week, surrendering the team leadership to Henry Chauncey '28, who hit hard to raise his figure from an even 400 to 420. William Ullman '28 is another who found the opposing deliveries hard to fathom, and dropped from his third place ranking, with 348, to seventh among the regulars, with a mark...
Whatever can have been your purpose in the use of the introductory sentence* I cannot fathom, unless it were a desire to be "smart...
...classical selections in "Copey's" anthology there is, of course, a great plenitude. The grief of Achilles over the body of Patroclus; the death of Socrates; "Hark! Hark! the Lark" and "Full Fathom Five"; "Lycidas"; "To Althea from Prison"; Gulliver and the Lilliputians; Tristram and the Ass; the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu; "The Rime of the Ancient Mari-er" and "Kubla Khan"; Lamb's "Gentle Giantess"; Edward John Trelawny on how they burned Shelley's body; a great deal of Keats; more Tennyson; still more Thackeray and Browning and more Dickens than anyone...
...went expecting a conventional musicianly concept of the Catholic ritual heard not that but more. They heard the soul of a great creator stomping through divine harmonies, shunting manufactured theories, demanding passage through forms and conventions to an Infinite. They heard Conductor Artur Bodanzky, inspired, fathom it all to the very depths with a fiery baton, get magnificent results from the Friends of Music Chorus...
...deep-sea sounding with which the engineers had experimented on the way over from Havre. This device consisted of a gun on the port side, a microphone abreast on the keel's starboard side, a dial on the bridge. The gun fired a cartridge overside, which exploded a fathom under water. The microphone registered this explosion's last echo from the bottom, permitting the depth to be computed in fathoms...