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...hundred and forty-two of nine. 109 of ten, 90 of eleven, 34 of twelve, 24 of-thirteen, 9 of fourteen, 5 of fifteen, 2 of sixteen ("self-development," "responsibilities...
...latter year as well as in 1896 Harvard and Yale fell apart, over both eligibility rules and playing rules. In these two years Harvard and Princeton resumed relations upon the gridiron, Princeton winning in both years. And then again they ceased to play, the series being thus interrupted for fourteen years. During these long and barren years numerous college diplomatists, graduates and undergraduates, endeavored to reestablish the series, but in vain...
Hardly a week goes by without adding a new name to the galaxy sprung up to dazzle the world. One lad who gets his college degree at the age of fourteen sparkles for a moment in the public eye. Then the spotlight falls upon a ten-year old lightning calculator. For an instant a boy of twelve who in two months learns German and enough French to carry on conversation holds the stage. But his glory pales beside a youth who has just mastered his fifteenth language, and that Hebrew. Boy chess champions, "little Sampson" Otts, Jackle Coogans, Baby Peggys...
Further information concerning the monster parade in Boston which the University contingent will join has been secured. Fourteen organizations, with a total of 12,000 members, will parade. There will be students from Boston College, Boston University and M. I. T. The blare of ten brass bands will vie with the yells of the marchers for supremacy in noise producing powers. The famous Whittall Huzzars of Worcester will march in full regalin, and each of the other delegations will have a distinctive uniform...
Barrie, of late maligned and accused of being saccharine and treacly-minded toward the general, is still to be contended with. On every evening of this week one may discover that "What Every Woman Knows" is still worth knowing and that this fourteen-year-old play has lost none of its sparkle and gayety, but is quite as droll and unspoiled as it was when Maude Adams mourned over her lack of "Charrum". It's a braw, bonnie show and how capitally the Copley forces...