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...Superman had its inception, says its author with a perfectly straight face, in a suggestion by the critic A. B. Walkley that Shaw write a play about Don Juan. The old story of the Spanish libertine and defier of God had for Shaw two aspects, the sexual and the philosophical. These produced, or at least informed, respectively, the play and the dream-scene within it, which together justify the subtitle of Man and Superman, "a Comedy and a Philosophy." (This is not to say, of course, that the main play lacks philosophy or the interlude lacks comedy. Shaw's peculiar...
...Bollos' success with current crews may have had something to do with the Eliot victory. Five of the members of the first eight were rowing last fall, and until recently this spring, Ev Walkley was stroking the fourth Varsity with Ewing Walker, Eliot seven man, right behind...
Lowell, Adams, and Leverett lined up at the beginning of the first crew race as well as the Merrymen and the Deacons, but Eliot stroke Ev Walkley jumped the field at the start and, rowing the main part of the race at a 32, was not pushed. The Lowell House Bellboys, who had failed to qualify but entered after winning a consolation race by default, finished half a length behind the second place Deacons, while Adams and Leverett were well back in the ruck...
Comstock's boat: Reece, Richards, Pirnie, Walkley, Emmet, Erskine, Brown, Straus, and Wigglesworth...
Philip Feldman, Robert Sidney Frankel, Maurice Stanley Friedman, Forrest Richard Gilmore, Milton William Hamolsky, James Dudley Hawks, Edward Michael Hoffernan H, Richard Henry, Jr. Peter Jacob Hirsch, Howard Phineas Kinsey Hoddick, John Walkley Holmes...