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...Druids. The chronology is a matter of faith, but the influences are distinctly those devices from some course in English. A good imagination and some artistry in words spent too lavishly on the impossible--these things make me wish that Mr. Moore would come off his mediaeval perch; his literary legs will stand firmer on the common ground. At last an essay after the old familiar College type, this time "Concerning College Amours." Mr. Martin has some delicate phrasing, captivating turns of speech, and still looks at life from an upper window. But he is sure to write better because...
...Freshman eleven will play its first scheduled game with Phillips Exeter Academy on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The line-up will be: Clark, r.e.; Fox, r.t.; Riggs, r.g.; Waterbury, c.; Jones, l.g.; Cudahy, l.t.; Campbell, l.e.; Baldwin, q.b.; Derby, r.h.; Perch, l.h.; Stillman...
LEFT in Section G, at Princeton game a black overcoat lined with silk, made by Call and Tuttle. Finder will confer a favor by leaving the same at Leavitt and Perch...
gence as the messages that run along the telegraph wire to the birds that perch on it. Few men learn the highest use of books. After life-long study many a man discovers too late that to have had the philosopher's stone availed nothing without the philosopher to use it. Many a scholarly life, stretched like a talking wire to bring the wisdom of antiquity into communion with the present, can at last yield us no better news than the true accent of a Greek verse, or the translation of some filthy nothing scrawled on the walls...
Remember that one is to be filled out and returned to Perch Bros.' Studio, the other to be retained as a duplicate...