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...action takes place during the time of the great Armada when hostile feeling against the Spaniards was at its highest pitch in England. To fit with this setting there is the beautiful and noble heroine the brawny, brave, and confident hero, and last but not least the urbanely smooth Spanish Count who enters the story by virtue of a shipwreck on English shores. This wily son of Spain abducts the beautiful heroine and carries her to his native land. Through all sorts of adversity she is followed by her faithful lover, and in the end, as may well be expected...
...game is memorable for several reasons: in this contest was scored by Harvard its first touchdown against Yale in the Stadium; in this contest was tallied the largest score Harvard ever made against Yale; in this contest was established perhaps the highest individual score for one game ever made on an Eastern gridiron, captain E.W. Mahan '16 checking off unaided, 29 of Harvard's 41 points...
...total of 2,370 concentrators, 35 percent, 830 in number, are now candidates for honors. This is an increase of 3.7 percent over last year and 6.7 percent over the previous year. Mathematics shows the highest percentage of candidates for honors, with 55.3 percent of its students enroled as seeking the degree with honors. History and Literature rates second with 48 percent honors seekers, and Government third with 42 percent...
...Crimson seconds have had a season of varied successes to date, not mid of occasional flashes of brilliance. The backfield has developed a well organized passing and running attack which reached its highest efficiency last Monday when it gave the Abbington eleven its first defeat in years. The Inc which proved unstable against the 1932 attack, has improved materially a his week, and is expected to furnish a galwart opposition to the charges of the Bruin this afternoon. HARVARD SECONDS BROWN 1932 Bemminger, l.e. r.e., Sawyer Dwinell, l.t. r.t., Ferrebee Stearns, l.g. r.g., Pollock Warner, c. c., Coffin Brown...
Simplicity and a superb vitality have made Jeritza. She wanted to be a prima donna. She is a prima donna and nothing interferes. She sings twice a week at the Metropolitan, their highest salaried singer. She rehearses. She sleeps. Other singers may ail. Jeritza has never missed a performance. Her public (she used to call it pooblic) must not be disappointed, and to bear out the principle she sang a concert once in Brooklyn on one foot, the other so badly sprained she had to be carried on the stage and propped against the piano. Yet trembling with fatigue when...