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Although the University squad has been practicing regularly on the courts of the Longwood Tennis Club at Longwood, the competition which will be afforded during the trip will give the players a valuable background of experience for a strenuous season beginning with the resumption of classes after the recess. Captain Plaffmann and Briggs are playing better this year than ever before, and Ingraham continues, to be the same brilliant performer. While it is rather early to make any predictions concerning the outcome of the season, Coach Cowles is particularly optimistic. The outcome of this trip will serve to Indicate...
...article seven years ago in which he said that the aim is not to make public speakers but private speakers. This new plan has been adopted after consultation with various debating organizations throughout the University, and will receive its first test Saturday night. It marks a relegation to the background of the old debating brick-bats, and is bound to make the debate more interesting...
...Howard Chandler Christy's new portrait of Mrs. Coolidge was shown at the White House. She is standing in the south grounds of the White House, with the fountain playing in the background. Around her shoulders blows a filmy white shawl. At her side is her snow white collie, Rob Roy, gazing up at her as she pats his head. To one who does no more than read the description, the picture seems like a Gainsborough...
Without scientific training or background, Mr. Eastman is nevertheless a scientist. He is interested in the make-up of the human feeing?and willing to experiment to find out how and in what relationship the human can be the happiest in the job he holds...
...though those are not absent-but a peculiarly graphic and moving analysis of a psychology alien to the landlubber; evolved, apparently, out of a sailor's long silent hours between wave and sky. The tales are like etchings, drawn with bold strokes, tense and stark, against the somber background of the ocean; they are best read with one's feet on the fender, safely removed from these portentous winds and waves...