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Playing for the Copley-Plaza Trophy this afternoon, the Crimson polo team faces the peak of its outdoor season in the next two weeks. Today's match will see the Harvard ponies galloping against those of the Dedham Polo and Country Club. Two games at Myopia are scheduled for this week, and on June 19 at the Westchester Biltmore Country Club the quartet will be fighting to defend its intercollegiate title...
...eyed Lifters. Myopia (shortsightedness) is caused by protruding the eyeballs when heavy lifting is attempted. Rest and instruction has restored 43% of the cases treated.?Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green, London...
WILD ASSES-James G. Dunton- Small, Maynard ($2.00). Mr Dunton an immature Harvard graduate, smudges painfully. He has a turgid mind, a high-school style, scant humor, literary myopia. Concentrating on an underground foreground, he dimly depicts crass youths guzzling bad gin, shooting craps, reading cinema magazines, swapping low stories, frequenting dives and brothels, being obscurely restless and messing up their young lives generally. One logy character plays football, stays respectable, is a college success. Another (the author) achieves a half-baked perception of his contemporaries as Wild Asses and Blunderbrats, laboriously adduces the law of compensation to flappers...
...Golly-Wogg; "The Theatre," by Last Night; "Art," by Froid; "Moving Pictures," by Will Hays Jr.; Wall Street Notes, by Well Known Broker. These Manhattanites chuckled at several jokes which they had chuckled at before, glared at several which they had never before encountered. They wondered whether subtlety or myopia were responsible for "The Optimist...
...games to be played. Coach Clark's men have lost two and won one of their previous league contests, having beaten the Instructors, but fallen before the 101st Artillery team and the Norfolk team. The members of the Essex team, Sasell, Adams, and Almy, are all players from the Myopia Hunt Club...