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...kindly and brave, he tells wistfully and with honesty of emphasis, without false pity for dead glories nor false praise for ancient virtues. Being Irish and a mellow man, he tells with rich gusto and whimsy, so restrained that their bursts give pleasure like that of finding a wild bird's nest or bathing alone in the sea or fully remembering an old, old song...
Brighton, Cliftondale, Dorchester, East Dedham, Framingham Center, and Somerville, Massachusetts are represented by the six Freshman in the award of the Charles Sumner Scholarship (formerly the Charles Sumner Bird Scholarship) and the five Harvard Club of Boston Scholarships just announced by the Club's Committee on Scholarships of which Mr. John C. Rice '98, of Boston and Dedham, is chairman...
...Sumner Scholarship, offered by Mr. Charles Sumner Bird, of the Harvard Class of 1877, goes this year to John Nordberg, '27 of Dorchester, a graduate of the Boston Public Latin School...
...hitter like Langford." (Wills' interlocutor asked if Langford could have whipped Champion Dempsey.) "Ho, Ho! Dempsey wouldn't have lasted any time. Made to order for Sam-poor Sam. Ah, gee, what a great fighter Now about . . . Firpo. I'll surely beat him. . . . Just let that bird come and I'll knock him back fast enough. Hitting? Say, I know he can hit. . . . Any clodhopper is likely to beat you. ... I may win in a round." Firpo: "My plan-my big plan-is to attack Wills' body. I do not think the man lives...
...different feather from mundane planes (which have wooden hulls, fabric wings, Liberty engines), this aristocratic bird has wings and body of duralumin-a new alloy, light as cork, strong as steel. It carries four passengers, has a special compartment for golf clubs and other week-end breakables. It will go 130 m. p. h., ten times as fast as the proudest, the tallest sailing yacht of bygone days...