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...more games to go] is not likely to lose." This year on July 4 Brooklyn played a double-header and lost the first game, which put them behind Chicago. But Chicago was playing Pittsburgh a doubleheader, and after lunch they lost and the Robins won, so that at sunset Brooklyn was in the lead ?by .002 of a point. The decisive factor was clearly what sort of playing would be done thereafter by these Robins, a gambling, reckless team of fine pitchers and erratic hitters, a team famed for last-minute spurts, for easy fellowship, popularity...
...leading citizen. A puritanical lawyer who "never played," never kissed his children goodnight, never gave them any sign of affection, would leave the table if Emily talked too much or too well, he once startled Amherst by ringing the firebell because he wanted the citizenry to observe a beautiful sunset. Emily's brother left home but Emily and her sister Lavinia were life-long sacrifices on the altar of filial piety. For years Emily never went outside the garden gate, but all the time she wrote poems secretly, lived intensely her seismographic life. She was small, with dark reddish...
...enroute for her Switzerland home. Famed is her conversation among friends for its bite, epigrams (sometimes unprintable). Her best witticisms are private. Lately in England she wrote that she had been at a luncheon party "at which all five sexes were represented." She is divorced. Other books: Enough Rope, Sunset...
...conference are Richard Roberts of Toronto, Reinhold Niehbuhr, of the Union Seminary. New York, Raymond Calkins '90, of Cambridge, and G. Sherwood Eddy, of New York. The program scheduled provides for two platform addresses daily, one in the morning, and one in the evening on Round Top at sunset. The morning series will attempt to appraise certain central tendencies in contemporary life, and point out the place of the student in relation to them...
...acres of Government-protected seed beds: dredge for oyster youngsters, then dump them on the commercial farms. From May 1 to June 1 this harvest is allowed but May 1 is the big day. Since seed oysters, by law, can only be gathered from sunrise to sunset, and since the boats engaging in the act must be sail vessels, the annual stocking-up takes on the nature of a race. Last week promptly at 6 a. m. on May 1 a cannon resounded at Bivalve, and 500 sloops hurried down the two-mile stretch to the seed beds...