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Herbert Bayard Swope, executive editor of The New York World, is justly proud of many things, including a roving reporter, Mrs. Clare Sheridan. Her despatches to The World (about Rudyard Kipling, Ireland, the Rhineland, Constantinople, Mussolini) have just been published under the title West and East, and are prefaced with the remark: " I have lost my belief in the infallibility of the Anglo-Saxon race. I have ceased to believe in equality, freedom or justice...
...Rudyard Kipling once said some thing very clever about "the female of the species" and he has been quoted with exasperating reiteration. Yet there are times when the phrase his cynical genius coined is the only remark adequate to the situation. It must have been on many men's lips during the past week's whirl at the D. A. R. Convention in Washington...
...competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston prizes for elocution held last evening in Sanders Theatre, the first award which was the Lee Wade prize of $50 went to Richard Arthur Zinn '24 of New York who recited "Boots" by Rudyard Kipling. The first Boylston prize of $35 was awarded to Aaron William Lewin '24 of New York for his recital of Robert Service's "On the Wire", and Harmon Curtis Martin '23 of Richmond Hill, New York, who gave "On the Death of Garfield" by James G. Blaine was awarded the second Boylston prize...
...following is the program for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize speaking contest, which will take place this evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre: R. A. Zinn '24, "Boots", Rudyard Kipling N. C. Fassett '22, "The Congo" Vachel Lindsay B. A. Trustman '22, "Repiy to Hayne", Daniel Webster Oviatt McConnell '24, "My Last Duchess" Robert Browning C. W. Phelps '22, "The Power of Motive", Frederick Aobisoha (Intermission of five minutes) M. P. Lichauco '23, "The Voice of the Philipino People", Manuel Quezon A. W. Lewin '24, "On the Wire", Robert Service J. C. Shoe '23, "Recognition of Soviet...
...judges were out for three-quarters of an hour before they could give any decision as to the other awards. The only first Boylston prize of $30 awarded was given to Edward Augustus Weeks Jr. '22 of Elizabeth, N. J., on the merits of an excellent recital of Rudyard Kipling's "Wee Willie Winkie". Benjamin Arthur Trustman '22 of Boston, reciting "Loris Ipanoff's Story" by Sardou, Harry Starr '21 of Gloversville, N. Y., reciting Woodrow Wilson's Mount Vernon Address, and Clyde William Phelps '22 of Rockford, III., reciting "Toussaint L'Ouverture", by Wendell Phillips, all took second Boylston...