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Between 1896 and 1916, with the exception of two years, Delta Upsilon annually revived an Elizabethan play. Interrupted by the World War, the annual tradition was not resumed till 1931. Since that year, the chapter has presented either Elizabethan or nineteenth century revivals...
Thus, to rescue the prizes from the limbo of mid-nineteenth century rhetoric, it is high time for University Hall to adapt the conditions under which the contest operates to the demands of modern times. For only by making the contest a competition in writing and delivering original material can the Lee Wade and Boylston awards proceed further in their purpose to stimulate and develop the ideal of effective public speaking in the college...
...doctors' tongues, for the Journal of the American Medical Association had just published a lengthy thoroughgoing account of Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. who, the author asserted, "exceeds . . . every other documented case of gigantism on record in medical literature." Last Monday, when Robert Wadlow celebrated his nineteenth birthday, he was 8 ft. 6 in. tall, weighed 435 lb., was still growing...
...great Garbos' annual offering combines all the necessary ingredients of great romance in the accepted nineteenth century fashion, even to the heroine passing away in here lover's arms, and, with excellent direction and casting, meets every conceiveable test of modern preferences. Greta reaches the heights as the charming consumptive, Marguerite Gautler. Her seductive shoulders are bared frequently with the desired effect, and the delicately ethereal effect of her appearance in the last scene is nothing short of great acting. Opposite her is Robert Taylor as handsome Armand Duval is convincing in the most tortuous windings of their love affair...
Alice looked at her notebook more closely. "He invented a process of some kind. I guess there just, wasn't any steel before the nineteenth century...