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...before they went out to dinner, it was fairly obvious to first-afternooners that Playwright O'Neill had moved Greece to New England. Those who knew their Euripides were quick to detect a parallel between Mourning Becomes Electra and the classic tragedy, recalled how Agamemnon, returning from the Trojan War, was killed by his wife (Clymnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
Thinks Biographer Ludwig: Schliemann "is an outstanding example of my repeated contention that the enlightened amateur beats the solid expert every time. ... If Schliemann had at the beginning known the state of Homeric research ... he would have regarded the Trojan War as a legend, and would have spent neither time nor ambition nor money on it. He succeeded purely because he was not an archeologist...
Sutermeister, whose intercollegiate record of 13 feet, 6 inches was raised by Graber, Trojan star, to 14 feet, 1-2 inch with a vault that gave his team the meet on Saturday, will be in shape for the encounter at Stamford Bridge, London, on July 18, Kuehn, who tied with Moore at New Haven, won a place on the team when he outjumped the Eli at Franklin Field to tie with six others for fourth place. The Crimson end of the broad jumping will be in charge of either J. M. Morse '34 or W. L. Hasler...
Citizens of Troy, N. Y. last week organized under Editor Rutherford Hayner of the Troy Times to press a claim that the original Uncle Sam was a Trojan. They asked the Federal Government to recognize their claim with a suitable memorial. For proof they pointed to a simple grave on the hillside overlooking the city in which lie the bones of one Samuel Wilson (1768-1854). Tall, spare, dignified, kindly, he, said the people of Troy, was the original Uncle Sam. The gist of their claim, based on old family letters, was as follows...
...yards. His wits spun after the tackle and he played in too close. Racehorse Russell Saunders twitched the ball to Edelson for one score, Arbelbide fell on a fumble that brought in another. Wild Pitt plunges and passes in the second half made a score, but the big Trojan line was charging properly, Duffield's boot lifting the ball as though it were full of gas and Racehorse Russell's cleats cutting turf. Southern California 47, Pittsburgh 14 was the most decisive beating that a loser has ever taken in the Tournament of Roses...