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Four new champions were crowned while others retained their championships. The new title holders are J. T. Mooney '31, Benjamin Eisner 2L, C. A. Floro 2L, and O. T. Roberg 1M. Three matches were of especial interest. In the 145 pound class G. N. Burns '29 succeeded in holding his title, after battling through to a semi final and final bout. At the outset of his first bout with Perry Baird 4M he was taken by surprise and during the first round was largely at the mercy of his opponent. In the last two rounds, however, his greater stamina saved...
...pound class--Benjamin Eisner 2L vs. C. M. Shane Jr. '31; E. J. Dennis '28 vs. G. B. Smith...
...American as baseball or apple pie," is what Biographer Irwin thinks his college mate is after years of industrious migration. Writer Arthur Brisbane suggests the handy parallel of Benjamin Franklin and says: "The more he saw of other countries, the better American he became...
...Majesty never possessed higher or more passionate epistolary powers than at the period covered by these letters (1879-1885).* Slashingly she underlines whole sentences and underscores two or three times her more emphatic phrases. The grand themes are first her grief at the political eclipse and final death of Benjamin Disraeli, "dear Lord Beaconsfield;" and secondly her rage at William Ewart Gladstone whom she would certainly have called a Bolshevik had the word then been invented...
...Benjamin Holt Ticknor...