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...Fifth Eclectic Reader, easily rivaled all the original four readers for popularity and inspired the elder brother to compile a prodigious Sixth. The Guide contained selections chosen to improve inflection and memory as well as morals and sentiment. There were the "Village Black smith," "Thanatopsis," "Gray's Elegy," "Lochinvar" and Hamlet's soliloquy. Stern questions followed each selection to test the reader's attention and earnestness...
...Manhattan, learned that Dr. Potter was planning to radio-broadcast his principles he cried : "If that fellow Potter keeps on I'll have to get out a warrant for his arrest on a charge of grand larceny. He cribbed my idea of a Christian hotel and, like young Lochinvar, ran boldly away with it before we even had time to catch our breath after the first announcement of the project. Now he has just dodged into the limelight with the idea of broadcasting the Bible. We originated this at Calvary Church some months back. Potter is a pilferer...
Meanwhile, like young Lochinvar, Senator Hiram Johnson, namesake but not relative of Magnavox, has ridden out from the West. As his steed he has chosen Frank H. Hitchcock--"astute broker of delegates" and conductor for Taft in 1908, for Hughes in 1916, and for Leonard Wood in 1920. Mr. Hitchcock's greatest strength lies, so it is whispered, in his control over southern delegates. But in the unusual task of pledging these "rotten horough" representatives to Johnson, the progressive candidate, Mr. Hitchcock will meet the redoubtable Mr. C. Bascem Slemp, who, although he has not been appointed campaign manager, presumably...
...English films include attempts at Sheridan's The School for Scandal and George Eliot's Daniel Dcronda. Tennyson's Becket and Scott's Young Lochinvar are in production...
...Wilson. Intermission 6. Harvard Specialty by H. Eliot '22 and J. Sargent '22. 7. Princeton Banjo Club: a. Whispering (Medley), Arranged by R. Wever. b. Avalon (Medley), Arranged by R. Wever. 8. University Mandolin Club; a. Thousand and One Nights, Strauss. b. Japanese Sandman, Whiting. 9. Princeton Glee Club: Lochinvar, William G. Hammond. 10. Harvard Glee Club. a. Drake's Drum, Coleridge-Taylor. b. 1. Football Songs. 2. Fair Harvard...