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...latest work the author has evaluated the literary influences of the time on, the pastourelle, but goes on to show that the chief inspiration was from popular sources. A chapter on the history of the genre after the Middle Ages throws some interesting light on French songs of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...
Though Boston College finished three men before any of the others had sent a trio across the line, their fourth and fifth finishers were in sixteenth and fifty-fourth place, making their total 82 points, while teams of better balance, Springfield with 44 points, Rhode Island with 53, and Bowdoin with 65, made off with the first three places. Northeastern University was in fifth place with 151, and following in order were Massachusetts State College with 170 and Boston University with...
...Bowman, Ga., Mr. & Mrs. John R. Ginn named their sixteenth child Quaver Ginn. Other Ginn children: Brodie, Corbin, Dorcas, Elmira, Fezzan, Gregor, Hassie, Ithmar, Jessie, Kester, Lisbon, Manson, Nelson, Ornice, Pascal...
...Sixteenth Century Spaniards, to whom the Carib Indians although tortured would not tell the source of their gold ornaments, imagined a place of gold, El Dorado, at the headwaters of the Orinoco River. No known Spaniard nor other white, until last month, ever reached the Orinoco's source. Then Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey of Tippecanoe City, Ohio* and Manhattan, his bright-eyed, hard-muscled little wife, and four men companions, after a three-month struggle up the hot, muggy Orinoco, reached the top of a "gigantic" peak of the Parima Mountains. From here they saw the second largest river...
...sixth in the afternoon, Hagen played his second shot into the woods, skimmed his third between two lines of spectators to plump his ball a yard from the cup, made a birdie four. After holding a lead of now one and now two strokes. Hagen dropped the fifteenth and sixteenth, where Alliss sank a 30-ft. putt, and they came to the seventeenth all even. Alliss thereupon sliced his drive to take a par four while Hagen drove straight down the fairway, approached well, quickly sank his putt. The last hole was halved. Hagen's total score: 423; Alliss...