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...latest victim of this common fate is Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, author of the famous popular ballad, " The Face on the Barroom Floor," which our statisticians report still leads " The Shooting of Dan Mcgrew...
Dispite Kipling's famous ballad, Easterners and Westerners have many likes and dislikes in common, but the object of their most violent hatred is the man who tells them the unsavory truth about themselves. In a play now appearing in Boston, the hero, a New York minister who says what he thinks; is ejected from office for his attitude towards his rich parishioners. Needless to say the latters' guilty consciences are responsible for the deed, but the chances are, even if his enemies were as innocent as they pretend to be, that he would have been expelled in any case...
...Joel T. Rogers is another of these poets whose work is of outstanding interest. He has a fine vigorous ballad manner, in his best work, that it very attractive. And he does something that not all young poets do,--he writes as if he really had something he wanted to say to us. His poems are too long to quote here; but the reader will do well to look him up in the book...
...Captain C. C. Buell '23 and Coach Knox, and a story by Stedman Buttrick '22, are features of the Yale Game number of the Advocate. The story, "The Three Who Corrupted Harvard," is a humorous sketch with the University for its setting. There are in addition a football ballad, poems by J. J. Cozzens '26, Theodore Hope '24, C. H. Morgan 2nd '24, W. C. Treat '23, and an essay by J. B. Keogh '25. The cover was designed by C. H. Morgan 2nd '24. Copies will be on sale at Cambridge and New Haven tomorrow...
...officially a Dramatic Number, but the amount of space devoted to matters lying on the far side of the footlights is not depressingly large. And singularly enough the best things, with one or two exceptions (notably the amusing opening ballad, which should be sung to the obvious tune by a Voice with straw in its throat) have little or nothing to do with "ther drammer" at all. The theatrical streaks are as a whole distinctly below the level of the non-Orphean layers. They reveal a tendency, from which the rest of the material is happily free, that has been...