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Other veterans on the team are F. B. Hayne '26, captain last year, who will struggle with Captain Bradford in the 175-pound class, B. J. Goldberg '26, injured last year, who is expected to grapple in the 125-pound class this winter, and B. C. Turner '26, in the 115-pound class...
Seven letter men are on the squad. Besides Captain Bradford, F. B. Hayne '26, last year's leader, H. R. Wood, '27. R. D. Harman '26, Carl Stearns '26, B. J. Goldberg '26, and F. B. Turner '26 and veterans available. In the heavyweight class, a contest is likely to develop between T. D. Howe '28, last year's Freshman captain, and S. S. Wilson '28, as Bradford is too light for that class this year and W. P. Locke '27 is ineligible...
...campaign might well be carried further by the embattled members of the Society for the Preservation of Pure English. George Ade, with his "Fables in Slang" could be given a chair in the Department of Classics; Ring Lardner should be appointed to a professorship in English; and Rube Goldberg ought immediately to be elected president of the Advocate...
...Seven Lively Arts," and Mr. Seldes has now stretched an arm into limbo and brought back the comic strip, which has long been devoured avidly by children, and surreptitiously by grown-ups. It seems that comic strips, when done by such competent artists as Webster, Briggs, and Rube Goldberg give a more realistic picture of bits of American life than any of the modern novels of unromantic detail have done...
...article in the current New Republic Mr. Seldes calls these purveyors of amusement "sour commentators," and of the work of Goldberg, for example, says: "It is extraordinarily unkind, yet without rancor, and is almost dispassionate in its cruelty." One can agree heartily with Mr. Seldes when he praises the writers of comic strips because they never verge into the nauseating sentimentality of most magazines and moving pictures. Yet they are, in his phrase, "male and ugly," with negligible plots, formed of cruelty and violence. His reason, however, as to why the comic strip is read so widely by the very...