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...develop poetic ecstasy. The fruits of more than 200 inspirations reached the New York Times; the New York World reported 2% bushels of verse. But at Le Bourget, shortly after Captain Lindbergh landed a fortnight ago, there was a poet who squatted on the flying field to gain first-hand inspiration-like Francis Scott Key writing the Star Spangled Banner. The squatter was sleek Maurice Rostand, son of the late Edmond Rostand.* The results were disappointing, particularly when translated into English. An excerpt...
...coming trip had nothing to do with booking football games however. Bingham will make contacts with Harvard men in other sections of the country, and will supply first-hand information of the Harvard official attitude on incidents leading up to Princeton action...
...GANG - Frederic M. Thrasher - University of Chicago Press- ($3). A six-years', first-hand study of 1,313 crime clubs...
...committees have been formed to secure information regarding conditions in locations where young college men might find vocational opportunities. This information will be published and sent to the colleges, where it will be used in planning the vocational work of the curricula. By this means first-hand knowledge of conditions existing in all fields may be brought home to the undergraduate, and influence him in making his final choice of his life-work...
...Gomez's opinions are the result of first-hand knowledge and observation as he has recently spent several months in Mexico...