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Mourning thousands stood tense and sorrow-stricken in the rays of the setting sun. All eyes were bent upon impromptu catafalque where lay the body of a young French ex-soldier; his rigid limbs were garmented in white; beside him reposed his "Blue Devil" Tarn O' Shanter. He, Jean Borotra, French Davis Cup competitor, had just been smitten unconscious by a tennis ball rebounding from the racquet of the Australian Gerald Patterson in the fourth set of an international doubles match at Forest Hills, L. I. On the day previous, Patterson had beaten Lacoste in the singles, Borotra...
...Love"; Shelley's "Cenci"; Browning's "Blot on the Scutcheon"; Tennyson's "Becket"; Goethe's "Faust"; Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus"; Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," specially edited by Professor C. W. Bullock; "Letters" of Cicero and Pliny; Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"; Burn's "Tam O'Shanter"; Walton's "Complete Angler" and "Lives" of Donne and Herbert. "Autobiography of St. Augustine"; "Plutarch's "Lives"; Dryden's "Aeneid"; "Canterbury Tales"; "Imitation of Christ," Thomas a Kempis; Dante's "Divine Comedy"; Darwin's "Origin of Species"; "Arabian Nights...
...second is the period of Edinburgh, and Ellisland. In 1787 appeared his second book of poetry, and in 1790 his "Tam O' Shanter," that excellent combination of the terrible and the ludicrous. More pieces of this sort would have bridged the gap between him and the first class poet. The third period is the melancholy one of his last days, but in which he often sings at his best...
...Cornell freshmen have adopted as a class hat, a black Tam O'Shanter, with a green top knot...
...Cornell freshman have adopted as a class hat, a black tam-o'shanter with a green top-knot...