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...found, I think, that the prologue was just a bit too long to say what it did. The "Being in Gray" had a rather difficult role--especially in the play proper--and Mr. Jackson executed it well, although a more resonant quality in the voice and a lower speaking tone would have heightened the effect of mystery. The candle of the Prologue was interesting, and fairly conveyed the impression of the ebb and flow of life...
...college undergraduate at times begins faintly to suspect that while a professor must be a professor in the classroom he may be a man outside. This secret is whispered about like a bit of scandal and heard sceptically by many. One of the few chances the professor gets to "come out" is the occasion of the University teas. Last year it is reported that one Freshman strayed into one of these parties and promptly fied when he discovered the "ogres of the class-room" assembled. Three graduate students from abroad attended and are said to have enjoyed themselves, while...
Eastman's block and subsequent recovery of the Yale placement kick was another outstanding bit of Crimson playing, and this was responsible for Pfaffman's perfect 25-yard drop-kick which ended the scoring and gave the University a safe seven point lead...
...issues, are excellent criterions of the remainder of the contents, especially the one concerning a recent remark of Heywood Broun that Harvard had traded odists to Yale for touchdowns. Here we have a touch of literary genius. The second editorial is more characteristically flippant, and is a fairly clever bit of satire on Yale secret societies...
...playing for 12 and 9-10 yrs. on the slocum of don't tackle a man when he catches a punt lest you make him muff it. Those tactics worked for 12 yrs. like a wolf trying to crawl through a bathroom window but finely they turned around and bit them. Will Elihu Yale try those tactics again? Only as an adverb...