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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wallace Irwin's sense of humor was constantly with him in those days. He wrote light verse and lighter prose. He was a burlesque writer for the Republic Theatre in San Francisco. Before John V. A. Weaver was out of short pants, he had written The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum and other poems "in American." His Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy made firm his reputation. Since then he has turned away from humor determinedly to write serious novels. Yet, principally, he is a lover of a good story. He will tell you the complicated plot...
...everything else, have their forms, their customs, their etiquette. One rule of journalistic etiquette is not to subject readers to free advertising. If President Coolidge ate canned peaches at the White House table, the brand of fruit could not be mentioned. If Judge Landis gave a perfecto to George V., the cigar's name would be lost to posterity. Hotels are one of the few classes of business permissible of casual mention...
Second Tenors: W. L. Hrewster '27, S. L. Eaton '27, C. D. Erickson '27, D. E. Earllic 1G.B., F. V. Field '27, R. C. Larcom '25, A. S. Lawrence '24, R. E. Partridge 1G., R. L. Hall '26, L. H. Titterton G., F. S. Tupper...
First Tenors: L. B. Chambers '25, Perieval Dove Jr. '27, C. A. Hicks '27, Alexander Ilsley '27, W. T. Mac Creadie 1G., V. C. Norton 1G.B., W. L. Schafer...
Backs O. H. P. Baldwin, H. Brown, J. C. Burke, M. H. Clifford, C. Coady, G. Day, L. Govan, W. Howard, D. J. Kepner, E. L. Lightburn, A. H. Miller, J. K. Morris, H. G. Phelps, K. C. Powning, a. Sayles, H. H. Saxe, G. Stewart, S. V. R. Strong, L. Tobin, F. W. Weich, I. Zarakov