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...your indispensable magazine. Recently I enjoyed the one entitled "The Merkle Incident." It was astonishingly complete and very well written, but surely it was mistaken in one important particular. You say, " 'Iron Man' McGinnity, coming on the run, seized the ball and hurled it into the stands. Tinker pinned his arms and the ball lobbed into the crowd already surging on the field...
...irresistible is the Mona Lisa, it happened again last week, when an unframed Mona Lisa by Mrs. Elizabeth Tinker Elmore, New York copyist, was stolen from the fourth floor parlors of the public library in Birmingham...
...refrain from observing that such a competition proves little of importance. Harvard may claim that she admits better material than Yale: she may even argue that her English department offers more thorough preparation for such at test. Yale would not dispute the point, because it is not worth a tinker's damn. It provides a source of raillery for Harvard undergraduates to use against their Yale friends: it probably also makes certain Harvard professors quite satisfied with their ability. But the "brain contest" does not alter the fact that each is a great University, proceeding along somwhat different lines. Each...
Professor Tinker graduated from Yale in 1899 and, after three years of graduate study, he taught English at Bryn Mawr for one year. He became an instructor in English at Yale in 1903 and was elevated to the rank of assistant professor in 1908. Since 1913 he has held the Emily Sanford chair in the department of English Literature. During the War he served as a captain of the Military Intelligence Division of the General Staff...
Professor Tinker is an authority on the Johnson period of English history. He edited the recent edition of the letters of James Boswell which was printed in 1924. Other works by Professor Tinker include, "Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney," "The Salon and English Letters," and the well known biography, "Young Boswell...