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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Barrie no longer writes, no one has succeeded like Mr. Milne in giving us the peculiar Barrie quality, the blending of fantasy with life, the humor of taciturnity, the comedy slant on character, the bitter grimace at success so marked in Barrie's later plays. "Success" is "The Twelve Pound Look" plus "Dear Brutus" in theme, scored delicately for a small orchestra. It is not powerful but it has imagination, a wishful beauty, and a kind of hurt sincerity which one remembers...
Lieutenant Connor from West Point, who was scheduled on the program, was unable to come, and in place of his bout. H. B. Wessellman '31 and E. L. Lane '24 engaged with epees. One of the fastest matches of the evening was the next one between Levis and Righeimer L. C. Winter '31 and H. B. Veatch '32 put on a very interesting bout with the sabre, followed by the Lane brothers in the only judged match of the evening, in which E. L. Lane won with five touches to four...
After the exhibition, Grasson told a CRIMSON reporter that it has been one of the finest exhibitions he had ever seen. He expressed the wish that Harvard would continue to give such demonstrations yearly as does Princeton and various other colleges. He was enthusiastic in his praise of Peroy. "I am pleased to find Peroy so strong," he said. "I had underrated him, especially with the sabre. He is stronger in all three weapons than the men in New York who specialize in one. He is a good man, and should do much for the sport at Harvard...
...House Plan is in operation. After living for a week in his new quarters in the cupola of the construction shack of Lowell House the Vagabond officially lays claim to the distinction of "first settler", and offers his less informed readers a report on the actual living conditions in one of the new houses...
...fact, the Vagabond is happy enthusiastically to declare Lowell House a success to date. If he can afford the rent, he intends later on to climb five flights to paradise on the sixth floor. Blow the winds as they may, in this remote retreat he will still have one eye on the works...