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...disdained school, tramped around the country till his parents indentured him to the captain of a merchant ship for the sum of a shilling a month. He sailed over a great part of the world. In 1902, derelict in Manhattan, he got a job in a saloon serving beer, washing glasses, taking care of the bartender's baby. The poet Yeats encouraged him to write. His works include: The Everlasting Mercy, The Widow in the Bye-Street, Dauber, The Daffodil Fields, Reynard the Fox, Gallipoli (prose), Enslaved...
...strengthens us tremendously in our position in asking Congress to give us light wines and beer. It proves what I have always maintained?that the Volstead act is hypocritical, crooked and marked by two standards...
...American college student, regaled with novels like Daudet's Sappho and nourished upon choice anecdotes of the Montmartre, has long been accustomed to look to Paris as the Elysian Fields of the genus Student. But the days of cheap beer and gay grisettes exist only in the imagination. The present lot of the Parisian student is indeed, a sorry...
Crew Z.--Stroke Barrett Scudder '27; 7, Kent Leavitt '26; 6, C. F. Darlington '26; 5, J. P. Hubbard '26; 4, W. J. Milde '25; 3, D. H. Bowles '27; 2, Elisha Canning '26; bow, G. D. Krumbhaar '26; cox., W. E. Beer...
...wine. The waiter promptly replied that he hadn't any. President Felton here remarked to the Prince in his bland manner that it was not in accordance with usage on such occasions to provide wine. 'Then', said the Prince, turning to the waiter, 'Get me a glass of beer'. For the second time the waiter was obliged to reply that he had none." The Transcript's account stops here, and it is not recorded whether or how the Prince finally slaked his thirst...