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...Boston Globe has the distinction of having in its employ the dean of all Harvard sports writers, Melville E. Webb, Jr, known more familiarly as "Mell". "Mell" has probably seen more Harvard football games than Mike Denihan, and is the most veteran follower of the Crimson's fortunes. Mr. Webb covered his first Harvard game when the Crimson met Pennsylvania in 1895, and he has not missed any important games since then...
...only is "Mell" the dean of Harvard writers, but he does not hesitate to associate with the callow Harvard correspondents who get their news daily form the official spokesman of Soldiers Field. True, he does not depend entirely upon this source, for his friendship with coaches, officials and former players is a wide one, but he is on the spot almost every afternoon when the news is given...
...Orleans. Through the gumbo mud, the open ditches, along the plank sidewalks, under the street lanterns, paraded seven drunken students, back from their schools in France. As they whirled past the colonial guard station, a startled guardsman gave pursuit to the celebrators, chased them pell-mell down into the Old Quarter, by the Place D'Armes, past the St. Louis Cathedral, along streets lined with white houses embroidered with iron balconies...
...most poorly paid professions, but that the tide has turned, in the university and in the secondary school, accumulating evidence proves. No longer are teachers in boys' schools, for example, paid the meager salaries that led Charles Dickens to plead their cause in his portrayal of Mr. Mell, the master of Salem House, whose boots were sent back by the cobbler, with the message that he could not mend them any more because there was not a bit of the original boot left. Christian Science Monitor...
Sweeping generalizations, slap-dash impressions and random notions calmly labelled "facts," all delivered pell-mell in a kind of word-storm, seriously impair the value of the article "Wagner--After the Noise of Battle," by H. K. Moderwell '12. For example, if anyone of the ancient objections to Wagner's voiceparts. has been amply refuted by the experience of the last forty years, it is that they "tend to tear his singers to pieces," as the author of this article affirms. It has, on the contrary, been observed again and again that the only singers whose voices have been seriously...