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...full worth. With adequate facilities, the Club would take a place of real prestige in American drama. The only road to this goal, however, is by a tremendous renaissance of Harvard interest in the drama. The English Department must heed this call or Harvard will have lost a priceless opportunity...
...Southwest Conference. In 1923-28 he coached at Texas Christian. Two bad seasons at Texas A. & M. had left him without a job until he was put on last year as Southern Methodist's assistant coach. When his predecessor went to Vanderbilt, he left Matty a priceless keepsake, one Robert Edward Wilson. ''Bobby" Wilson's legs have to carry only 147 lb., so they carry them incredibly fast. Last year he played just five minutes against Fordham, during which he racked...
...Northern Front brought Emperor Haile Selassie news that 4,700 Italians have been killed by Ethiopians in savage skirmishes bordering the area nominally conquered by Il Duce's forces. Runners from the Southern Front told of the capture from Italians of 1,000 precious rifles and 20 priceless machine guns, of Italian tanks stranded and abandoned, Italian native troops mutinying...
...more need priceless works of art be devoured by revenous bugs and worms. A lethal chamber, installed by the Fogg Art Museum for fumigation purposes, has inaugurated a new era in the career of old treasures...
...Harry Elkins Widener, the man responsible for it all. From schooldays a great collector of rare editions of all kinds, Widener, when here, began to interest himself in Robert Louis Stevenson. After having built up a fine collection, he was able in later years to round it out with priceless treasures secured from a George M. Williamson. Especially did Widener love to possess volumes that had been cherished by the authors themselves, volumes with personal dedications to the authors' friends and patrons. Because of this love for books with a personal touch, he spent much time and money in acquiring...