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...about last week in the little town of Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif, he would have been astounded. Yet they were there because he once wrote a story called "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,'' which told how Jim Smiley's frog Dan'l Webster was defeated at Angels Camp when the opposition loaded it with buckshot. In 1926 Angels Campers, grateful for their town's only fame, instituted an annual International Championship Standing Broad Jump for Frogs to honor Mark Twain and to have fun. Last week they dedicated a Mark Twain Monument...
...explained in the prose terms of psychology such a Paranoia, Megalomania or various other complexes. In these interpretations the poet's relationship to T. S. Eliot is indicated and also in certain later poems a streak of morbid bitterness is traced to the Elizabethans, Donne, Marston and Webster. The abstruse nature of Aiken's poetry can be seen in the conclusion as to his five symphonies written between...
University HARVARDPRINCETON M.I.T. Stroke Cassedy West Richardson 7 Saltonstall Dayton Miller 6 Bacon Merrill Valentine 5 Bancroft Pease Cimorelli 4 Webster Williams Regan 3 Erickson Shennan Pleasants 2 Hallowell Botzow Hapgood Bow Holcomb Pflaumer Thieler Jayvee Stroke Lawrence Crane Birmble 7 Hollingsworth F.Kellogg McLeod 6 Robertson Pell Evans 5 Buckley Skillman Denning 4 Hovey Tasker Cummings 3 Locke Cumming Birdsell 2 Swaim Lafeau Birmer Bow McKesson Miller Hall 150-pound Stroke Prince Hardy Bearce 7 Lincoin Hallett Walsh 6 Lombard Moore Casey 5 Woodward Drewery Anderson 4 Wiggins Root Levine 3 Gillbert Backus Raymond 2 Campbell Smith Kirkpatrick Bow Perry...
...first crew, as officially announced, is as follows: Stroke, C. J. Cassedy '33; 7. Robert Saltonstall '33; 6. W. B. Bacon '33; 5. Malcolm Bancroft '33; 4. A. N. Webster '31; 3. J. M. Erickson '32; 2. Captain J. W. Hallowell '31; Bow, W. H. Holcomb '33; Cox, F. S. Holmes...
...plans of the past several weeks. M. M. Johnson, Jr. '31, is the latest recruit to the sick list, and will probably not reappear on the river until the end of the season. His place at number four in Cassedy's boat is being taken by A. N. Webster '31, who has previously been rowing in Lawrence's boat at number...