Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holmes, to desire a more intimate knowledge of the man than his cases vouchsafe, to ferret out his creator's inconsistencies only in order to dismis them airily, to raise the question of mortality merely as an excuse for a display of nostalgic faith. No individual can accompany Dr. Watson into No. 221-B Baker St. without feeling these things; yet, unfortunately for Mr. Starrett, an age which contemns lush sentimentality, compells the individual to avoid, as evidence of good taste, public confession of them. In writing this present biography, then, Mr. Starrett must have been in something...
...bound to admit a certain weariness when encountering such passages as this, "Oh ye of little faith! Surely he lived--our Sherlock--and breathed the fog and dust of Baker Street, even as now, one hopes, he breathes the purer air that blows across the Sussex Downs. And Watson too--has he not sold his latest practice, and gone to join his comrade? How often one likes to think that it is so!" And of similar extravaganza there is abundance. But happily, it is accompanied by faithful, intelligent, and occasionally inspired research. There are many satisfying stories: The name Sherlock...
...able and deeply beloved churchman. Potent speakers have also been President Herman Chen-en Liu of Shanghai University, whose grandfather became a Christian: well-poised Miss Wu, whom all China knows as president of a handsome women's college at Nanking; and Dr. Charles Roger ("Charlie'') Watson, Cairo-born president of the American University at Cairo...
Touchdowns: Harvard; Hedblom, Ford (2), Blackwood, Ecker; Yale, Work. Substitutions: Harvard; Watson, Giles, Bilodeau (Capt.), Ecker, Choate, Lane, Weeks, Little, McFarlane, Gaffney, Heyser, Olney, Higgs, Brown, McTernan, Paul, E. Jones, Hallet, Pedrick, Brookings, Wick, Friedman, Hardy, Young...
...lineup: Junior Varsity: l.e., Housen; l.t., Barrows; l.g., Kidder; c., Emory; r.g., Locke; r.t., Knowles; r.e., Potter; q.b., de Give; l.h.b., Fuller; r.h.b., Rabinovitz; f.b., Gibbs. Freshmen: l.e., Geer; l.t., Simmons; l.g., Kessler; c., Jones; r.g., Young; r.t., Watson; r.e., Adlis; q.b., Hedblom; l.h.b., Heyser; r.h.b., Ecker; f.b., Watt...