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Next day the sun shone again and tempers began to improve. Painters, though forbidden by their unions to exert themselves, plied their brushes vigorously. Plasterers, bricklayer and frame-builders broke into a gallop of activity. By week's end 17 pavilions were finished and functioning, though it was expected that the whole thing would not be ready for a month...
...They got their idea from Benjamin Day's New York Sun, which had been pleasing Manhattan's masses and enriching its proprietor at a penny a copy since 1833. Sledding hard in Philadelphia, Partners Simmons and Swain left it to Partner Abell to see that the Sun shone successfully on Baltimore. The story of the Sun therefore became the story of Partner Abell, of his descendants, and of their business and journalistic heirs. Last week that story was published by four able writers, all employes of the Sun, in as comprehensive a biography as any U. S. newspaper...
Batting stars for the varsity nine were Lupe Lupien and McTernan who both hit three for five. Pitcher Stehnach shone for Cornell with two hits in four tries, one of which was a long home run to tie up the game in the sixth...
...actors are not the first thing seen. The curtain goes up on a scene that is pointedly empty of human beings. Time is to be the real protagonist of the story: "At length the moon rose and its polished coin, though obscured now and then by wisps of cloud, shone out with serenity, with severity, or perhaps with complete indifference. Slowly wheeling, like the rays of a searchlight, the days, the weeks, the years passed one after another across the sky." On a spring day in 1880 Colonel Pargiter leaves his club to pay a visit to his cockney mistress...
...notables 25 years after graduation as to prompt Sportswriter John Roberts Tunis, Harvard 1911, to publish a pessimistic portrayal of his classmates' aspirations and accomplishments (Was College Worth While?}. Most distinguished member of 1911, in the consensus of the class, was Cartoonist Gluyas Williams, who shone on the Harvard Lampoon as an undergraduate. For First Marshal, the Class of 1911 elected former President Herbert Jaques of the U. S. Golf Association. Few of 1911 got rich, fewer still Author Tunis judged to have won "genuine distinction" (TIME, Sept. 14). Up for scrutiny this year stand 536 Harvardmen...