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...Books to Take On a Desert Island," and their like, eleven well known writers and critics, questioned by Vanity Fair, " Who are, to your mind, the ten dullest authors "I " make frank confession of their pet literary abominations. The questionees are as diverse as possible -George Jean Nathan, Christopher Morley, Edna Ferber, James Branch Cabell, Hugh Walpole are five of the number - and they certainly agitate the pedestals of many accepted literary deities...
Latin America. The Carnegie Institute has received a five-year concession from the Guatemalan Government to carry on explorations in the Peten district, contining Tikal, perhaps the oldest of the Maya cities (200 A. D.). Dr. Sylvanus Morley will soon return to Central America to take up this work. American archeologists are in charge of the museum at Guatemala City...
Christopher Morley, famed colyumist: "Ten sonnets, fourteen lines each, I wrote, and read before the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. My text? 'The herb, Lunaria, ceremoniously gathered at set times, laid upon any lock it makes it flie open...
Together with Christopher Morley and other valiant seamen, McFee has taken share in the Tusitala, a rechristened ship which will soon be given over to transporting those who wish to travel according to old sailing vessel methods...
...President of the Society, Judge Robert Grant '73, will be the presiding officer and will introduce Mr. E. F. Gay, Law '18, who is to give the principal oration. Mr. Christopher Morley has been selected this year as the poet of the occasion, and Bishop C. L. Slattery '91 as the chaplain...