Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of Huxley's notes: The Nature of Love, Physical Passion, Old Age, Progress, Money, Comic Poetry, Obscurity in Poetry. God, Death. Authors quoted range from Sappho to Paul Valery, include many passages from U. S. Poet Walt Whitman but only one from a living English poet, William Henry Davies (nothing from Huxley's late great friend. David Herbert Lawrence). Significant of the pendulum-swing of modern taste are the admiring references to Tennyson and Browning, frequent quotations from them. As an example of unconscious literature Huxley gives the farewell note of a suicide: "No wish...
...summary: HARVARD PRINCETON Baldwin, Wolcott, Hasler, l.w. r.w., Tiers, Lane Putnam, Everett, Pruyn, c. c., Glazebrook, Kammer Saltonstall, Beale, Lincoln, Holmes, r.w. l.w., Whitman, Poole Martin, Dow, l.d., r.d., Gardner, Green Watts, Pell, r.d. l.d., Boice, Flynn deGive, g. g., Thouron, Hirsch...
Score--Harvard 5, Princeton 4. Goals--First Period: Saltonstall (Putnam), 2.50; Glazebrook, 8.33; Glazebrook (Whitman), 9.34; Baldwin, 19.38. Second Period: Glazebrook (Whitman), 6.56; Baldwin (Putnam), 9.48; Lane (Kammer), 10.19; Putnam, 17.25. Third Period: Wolcott, 3.13. Penalties--Wolcott (hooking); Kammer (holding); Putnam (high stick); Saltonstall (stiff check). Referees--Smith and Foley. Time--Three 20-minute periods...
Died. Malcolm Douglass Whitman, 55, oldtime tennis star, Manhattan textile man; by jumping from his fifth-floor Manhattan penthouse. Thrice (1898-1900) U. S. singles champion, pioneer (1900, 1902) Davis Cup team player, he researched the game in his 1932 book, Tennis Origins and Mysteries...
...Whitman's successor as U. S. singles champion, William A. Lamed, died by his own hand (pistol) at Manhattan's Knickerbocker Club...