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This exceeds the total number of Freshmen who participated in athletics last winter by 169. Squash, track, and fencing have made the greatest progress in popularity, while basketball, and the gymnasium class, have a much smaller enrollment. There is no equitation for Freshmen this winter...
...Melancholy Adventure", might have been the greatest story in the book; might even have been the greatest story. But in this instance, as in Mr. Maugham's ghost story, the author failed through the attempt to make the commonplace suggest the emotional. Mr. Boyd loses his laurels by pure timidity. No doubt one says less than he means, and it is an offense to open the heart; but Mr. Boyd plods with matter of fact foot along a path where Merrick would have sung with "voice memorial". Perhaps it is not timidity that led Mr. Boyd astray; he sinned...
...Translations from the French and Russian have been very popular. Is it because they are foreign? I don't think so. Last year I practically concluded arrangements with the elder Guitry to appear in this country, not because he is a Frenchman, but because I think he is the greatest actor in the world. He would be more of a sensation here than Eleanora Duse. I had the New Amsterdam Theatre already engaged. He was going to bring his own company and put on his own plays. At the last moment, the whole thing fell through. His son, Sacha Guitry...
...Coolidge, true to his reputation, has acted the part of the silent, hard-working, deliberate executive forced almost against his will into the maelstrom of pre-convention politics. But when once he has arrived at his decision he has acted with the firmness which is traditionally his greatest claim to fame. He has mentioned Cleveland and the Republican National Committee has bowed to his will. He has mentioned Butler and crowds of party leaders have thronged the latter's suite at his Washington hotel...
...young Lochinvar, Senator Hiram Johnson, namesake but not relative of Magnavox, has ridden out from the West. As his steed he has chosen Frank H. Hitchcock--"astute broker of delegates" and conductor for Taft in 1908, for Hughes in 1916, and for Leonard Wood in 1920. Mr. Hitchcock's greatest strength lies, so it is whispered, in his control over southern delegates. But in the unusual task of pledging these "rotten horough" representatives to Johnson, the progressive candidate, Mr. Hitchcock will meet the redoubtable Mr. C. Bascem Slemp, who, although he has not been appointed campaign manager, presumably still retains...