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...Green Bough" Mr. Thurston has struck upon a rich vein, not a new one, in fact it is age-old, but one which is usually adapted to the life and delicacy and beauty which are so large a part...
...that romance and the fullness of life will never come to knock at her door, ventures out in search of them. Told by a realist, the emphasis would have been laid upon the sordid details, upon the tragedy of starved lives and the futility of effort; told by Mr. Thurston all that is sordid is lost behind the glory of living and the joy that lies therein. Mary Throgmorton, the heroine, is a woman of twenty-seven or eight who has lived all her life a spinster with her spinster sisters, dominated by the memory of the puritanic virtue...
...doubt it is a dangerous doctrine, this that Mr. Thurston preaches, but the danger of it seems dwarfed by the beauty and tender understanding with which he interprets it. "All women would be as Mary Througmorton if they dared" he has written. Here the moralists will say: "But what will happen to the family? Our children must by brought up properly. This is an outrageous doctrine." Yet one cannot help feeling that if all women dared as Mary Throgmorton dared, that if all had the courage she had, then the world need not worry as to the future...
...yard relay, which was made by a team of the New York Athletic Club in 1915. It was 2 m. 10 2-5 s. In their recent meet with Princeton the Yale relay team, consisting of R. F. Solley, C. D. Prait, W. L. Jeliffe Jr., L. C. Thurston (captain), and R. Binney Jr., covered the distance in 2 m. 6 s. This race was the feature of the meet which Yale...
Baskets from floor: Harvard 1924. Gordon 7, Stevens 6, Sipp 1; Dartmouth 1924, Malcolm 5, Patten 2, Thurston 2, Watkins 2. Free throws: Gordon 12, Watkins 2, Eastburne 4, Hecht 1. Free throws: Gordon 12, Malcolm 2. Referee, Hoyt. Time: Twenty-minute halves...