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...described it as normal, well proportioned, well preserved. He weighed it. It weighed 1,150 grams, exactly the same weight as the brain of Dr. Burt G. Wilder, who contributed his brain to the Association last January...
...values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore, he arranges them in bizarre groups, droops them across a page, lets their meaning depend largely upon their effect as psychological images. That words can ever be used thus fastidiously is a doubtful hypothesis. Poet Cummings, in his wilder moments, imitates the young French decadents. Tired of this, he reacts against them, against himself, adopting in his sonnets a lyricism that has come down to him, thinned and sweetened, from the lutes of the 17th Century cavaliers. Thus a very old and a very new spirit speak...
...greatest of living jockeys, rode in front of the stands at the opening of the Jamaica Track. Metropolitan racegoers, who beheld him then for the first time since the August day when he crumpled, limp as a leveret, from his mount at Saratoga, rose shouting to welcome him. Amid wilder shouting, he rode J. S. Ward's Worthmore, pulled him over the line to win by the width of a lead pencil from H. P. Whitney's Noah in the famed Paumonok Handicap...
HARVARD AMHERST Zarakov 3b. l.f. Miller Bennett c.f. r.f. Morse Ellison r.f. 2b. Douglas Todd l.f. c.f. Wilder Hammond 2b. p. Woodruff Condy 1b. 1b. Betts Howard s.s. s.s. Cameron Hoffman c. c. Franzen Toulmin p. 3b. Parker...
...member from Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, one to be elected: Allan Evans, Julian Lenhart Ross, Ernest Wilder Spaulding...