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Among those who have engaged boxes for the entire tournament are: Brigadier General Cornellus Vanderbilt W. S. Graver, Mortimer L. Shiff; Lieutenant General Robert Lee Ballard, Otto H. Kahn, Judge Elbert H. Gary, Colonel Will II. Hays, Mr. Payne Whitney...
...whole affair would be amusing were one only to judge by the letter of the criticism employed by those who would change Boston's school books. A far graver side of this concerted agitation is seen when we reflect that if Messrs. McSweeney, O'Connor, Prout, Walsh and Watson are to have their way, there is nothing to prevent one good textbook after another being tossed out of the Boston schools on the ground that their unhappy writers have not said that perfection was copyrighted in the thirteen States and more especially Massachusetts. Mr. O'Connor is reported...
...spirited, if abrupt, review of Mr. Mencken's new anthology of Prejudices, the magazine makes healthful music. The Editorials reveal a temperate pulse; they concern undergraduates; they do not fall to charm our graver blood. And though we miss the Brief Case, with its crisp, incisive commentary on Harvard happenings, there is no pause...
They master graver books, by sterner light...
...Italian defeat is momentarily assuming graver proportions. With a hundred thousand prisoners taken, and most of the difficult mountain country already passed, there is a lively danger of the fall of Udine, and with this the capture of the Third Army across the Isonzo. Not since the days of the great German advance of August 1914, have the Allies been confronted with so serious a crisis. For should a catastrophe take place, then the way will lie open for the Germans to seize the rich Lombard plain, capture new ports for submarine bases on the Mediterranean, and even menace France...