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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baron Nicholas Wrangel, aged father of famed General Baron Wrangel who still holds together a "White Russian" army in Jugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 27), has just published most illuminating, if somewhat bloodcurdling memoirs.* He proceeds from his childhood (circa 1855) when a neighboring Count Visapur went unrestrained although he used to decorate his garden with pedestals on which stood all day statues improvised out of living serfs, stripped and painted white. In that era, Baron Wrangel's Aunt Jeanne would say, if anyone asked her the time, "Thank God, I have never been compelled to learn that!" and would display...
Gracefully if somewhat reluctantly Harvard concedes the first moral victory of the football year to the directors of New Haven athletic destinies. The H. A. A. has stated clearly that it does not care to remain longer either different or indifferent in regard to non-scouting agreements, and that next year its officials will restrain any curiosity pertaining to Yale teams until the final game in the Stadium. Next year organized and open scouting of Eli teams will be abandoned, with the words "next year" specific in the agreement. Remembering the tardy, appearance of her football teams among the ranks...
...about the flood; most of them endlessly reiterating news of thousands homeless, of counties and parishes inundated, left readers with a deep but vague impression of the great disaster. Had a reporter explored the flood area with an eye to specific highlights, notes for his story might have read somewhat as follows...
...Ryndam backers laid claim with apparent justice to having successfully inaugurated "college travel." That they somewhat disparaged the proposed rival cruise of the Aurania by calling the latter mere "Educational travel" was understandable in view of the for- wardness with which the Aurania backers advertised their scheme, identifying it with the Ryndam cruise as if to shoulder the Uni- versity Travel Association's projected repetition into obscurity. But The Binnacle of the S. S. Ryndam had the honesty to report the remark of a shrewd student: "The idea of college travel is so much bigger than the men who have...
...ANGLING is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so," said Izaak Walton; and Bliss Perry's three essays on fishing seem abundant proof of this statement. Only a born angler could write with such gusto, or make the subject seem so alive to the reader. Three essays--"Fishing with a Worm," "Fishing with a Fly," and "Revisiting a River"--make up this book; all appeared in the Atlantic Monthly...