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...four Mid-Western teams coming bring with them every Western Conference individual titleholder. These men, who will attempt to gain National Titles, are Al Schwartz of Northwestern in the 40-yard and 100-yard swims and also in the 220-yard swim, Garnett W. Ault of Michigan in the 440-yard free style. Dick Hinch of Northwestern in the 150-yard back stroke, Bob Howlett of Northwestern in the 200-yard breast stroke and Wentworth Lobdell of Iowa in the fancy diving. Lobdell is the only Iowa swimmer who will compete in the meet...
...your modern Dickens and in place of Charles Lamb there is Max Beerbohm and a worthy modern equivalent he is. Follow him with James Stephens, possibly Machen, and Aldous Huxley. Hudson leads us to Cunninghame, Graham, and Shaw. For Jane Austen we shall have (let us hope) David Garnett and for Leslie Stephen, Lytton Strachey! It will not be as easy to follow the literary scientists and philosophers; somehow William James and Santayana and Bertrand Russell do not suggest the heights of the ancient Olympus. But they, along with Neitzsche, make better reading. Possibly one thinks too much of those...
...Garnett Day Expedition which returned in February with birds and mammals collected on Mt. Roraima in British Guiana, financed by Lee Garnett Day, importer of South American products, Manhattan...
...lectured often and melodiously, wrote verse about Princeton in the Revolution and in the then-brewing World War. Prior to The Torchbearers, his most cele brated poem was Drake, an epic of British empire-building. Aged 47, Mr. Noyes lives in London, sensitive, earnest, fond of swimming. Mrs. Noyes (Garnett Daniels) is the daughter of a U. S. Army colonel...
...Author. The shrewd, pitiless accents of Edgar Lee Masters, who was born in Garnett, Kan., in 1869, were heard in Chicago long before he turned professional poet. He was a trial lawyer with side interests in Democratic politics. Writing poetry was another sideline. His friend, Publisher William Marion Reedy of Reedy's Mirror, refused several of his contributions, but accepted from one "Lester Ford" some subjective epitaphs on imaginary dwellers in an imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer...