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...rough Riff Robin Hood is the protagonist in "The Desert Song", a tuneful expose of Mohammedan love-technique now on view at the Majestic Theatre. Yelept "The Red Shadow" (rhymes with "go, snow, or know") this brigand leads his turbaned tenors to several well-earned choral triumphs over Post 13 of the Moroccan Legion...
...innings, the longest game in Harvard-Yale baseball history. In 1914, by mutual agreement, for one year, the coach was banished from the bench and the players left to their own initiative. The following year Harvard, Yale, and Princeton agreed to play a round robin series of three games with each other...
...Robin Hood theme has been picked up again by the movies. Witness "Rose of the Golden West" and the current Metropolitan attraction, Richard Dix in "The Gay Defender". Be it remarked immediately that they did these things better with the help of Mary Pickford's husband. Certainly there are enough important Latins in Hollywood to keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd...
...other point upon which college debating stands indicted in the mind of Doctor Mangun is the reversal of positions that each team must take in such a round-robin as the Harvard-Yale Princeton triangular debates. He quotes the damning evidence of the yellowed newspaper clipping. "Following their victory over the Yale affirmative the Harvard men demonstrated their versatility 'by taking the opposite side against Princeton and again winning the judges' decision...
Besides this, the publishers "acknowledge with profound gratitude the aid of Messrs. Aesop, Wm. Howe, Rob't Herrick, Poor Robin, Chas. Warner, Ben Jonson, Plato, and Shakespeare "to mention but a few of the post mortuous contributions to this very delightful, very helpful book...