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...crews are now using the new Pocock shelt given by Robert Herrick '90 of Boston which will be taken to Red Top. Some of the braces have been removed from this boat in an attempt to lighten...
...unknown" in the U. S. He took his magnificent work to Edinburgh and was made a member of the Royal Academy. He executed 1,065 life-size figures of North American birds, exactly reproduced and scientifically classified, together with five volumes of text describing bird habits and habitats. To lighten up this Ornithological Biography he inserted, after every fifth bird, an "episode" or "delineation" from his roamings. These sketches, carried through three volumes, constitute by themselves an incomparable volume on early America. Professor Herrick of Western Reserve University, Audubon's biographer, has edited this volume for the first time...
Forty-one thousand persons, including Vice President Dawes, saw the hunchbacks of Notre Dame come out in silk football pants (an innovation designed to lighten the uniform) and wrestle up and down the field while the cheering section bellowed "Wynn." That gentleman, together with Back Edwards and Hearndon, managed in the last period to penetrate Northwestern's strong defense. Score: Notre Dame, 6; Northwestern...
...with her instinct for writing and encouraged the project of her present work. The New York to which she goes back in its pages is the New York of her girlhood, speculatively remembered. That she had lately to send Mr. Bender home to Denmark, an incurable invalid, did not lighten her labors. The Dewing girls, Mary and Elizabeth Ann, attend a Manhattan convent of English nuns...
...tremendous was the show that the lack of laughter glared ominously. The elaboration bore down upon the spectators' sensibilities and became oppressive. Accordingly, The Great Temptations stood forth as an exceptionally dull revue. It is not impossible that the producers may hurriedly purchase jokes and humorists in abundance and lighten up their handiwork. In such a case the show should be an enviable success; at present it is a lazy heavyweight. Miller and Lyles, colored comics, obliged with a few jokes. Hazel Dawn, one-time famed "Pink Lady," was the prettiest principal. But in a time of red-hot temptations...