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...finally pinned by a chancery and a half nelson while another half nelson spelled the doom of Dick Aldrich, at the hands of Carloton. In the final bout, heavyweight Tom Rogstad lost to his Tech opponent by referee's decision...
There are capable substitutes ready to take over in the vacated posts, however. Sophomore Jim Biggins edged out Harrison Blaine for the 136-pound class, and Ray Stone and Dick Aldrich, both veterans of several Varsity matches, will replace Richardson and Lacy in the 145 and 175-pound classes respectively...
...course, he knew Louisiana-born George Washington Cable, who was slowly decomposing in New England. William Dean Howells, who was smugly doing the same in New York. He knew also Thomas Bailey Aldrich, who "had very nearly as extensive an appreciation of himself and his gifts as had the late Edmund Clarence Stedman, who believed that the sun merely rose to admire his poetry and was so reluctant to set at the end of the day . . . that it lingered and lingered and . . . was never able to keep correct time during his stay in the earth." But the mind craves...
Most of the book is given over to the old man's memories. He snarls with moral indignation when he thinks of Bret Harte's treatment of his wife, Mrs. Aldrich's treatment of her guests. He scolds about the recurrent miseries of official banquets. "It is an hour and a half of nerve-wrecking clamor, of intolerable clattering and clashing of knives and forks and plates, of shrieking and shouting commonplaces at one's elbow-mates . . . and when there is a band-and there usually is-the pandemonium is complete, and there is nothing...
Playwright Goldston, asked what led him to write on the subject, replied: "Inspiration from Adams House fodder, information from Professor Morison, and instigation from Aldrich C. Durant...