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...following article on the Wolverine--Gopher rivalry and the high points in Michigan football history was written for the Crimson by R. G. Dunne, line coach of the Harvard football team and a former Conference star...
...long tussle, the original owners emerged victorious; but Minnesota was irate. Finally, after discussion, it was decided that the little brown jug should go to the winner of the annual game, to stay in that college's possession for the next 12 months. Ever since them, although the Gophers do not hold their former position of natural rivals, there is always much ado about the jug, and the festivities of the Gopher-Wolverine game hold a high place in the minds of the student bodies...
...valet was labeled "Peek." The damsel, who might have been either weeping or sleeping, was labeled "Farm Vote." The departing gallant wore a haughty "G. O. P." label. The dubious gallant bore an unmistakable resemblance to Nominee Smith, and to make certainty certain, Cartoonist Homer Speltz of the Gopher Prairie, Wha.,* Clarion had labeled the figure...
...WALKS IN BEAUTY-Dawn Powell—'Brentano ($2.50). There is a theory, which many U. S. writers and critics clasp tightly in their teeth, that the Great American Novel will come, like young Lochinvar, out of the Great Middle West. As a result, the saga of Gopher Prairie has been rewritten backward, forward, and on the head of a pin. In its latest form it is the story, mainly, of Dorrie Shirley, a sensitive little girl who had a warm disposition, a prim and unsympathetic sister called Linda, and a grandmother called "Aunt Jule," who ran a ramshackle hotel...
...Significance. This novel has long needed a writer. In Ramon Guthrie it found one of more than ordinary skill. His aviators are grease-smeared, swaggering, circus-like performers-and not papier-mache heroes. Also he does for Berkenmeer what Main Street did for Gopher Prairie. One needs both hands and most of one's toes to count the significant characters in Parachute. As the spokesman for the author, the shrewdly-mad Sayles makes the following deduction...