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HARVARD PENN STATE Pattison, l.f. r.f., Hammond Holland, r.f. l.f., Davis Moushegian, c. c., Brand Hageman or Huppuch, l.g. r.g., Conn Farrell, r.g. l.g., Saltzman...
Either because of an astounding innocence or a lurking diabolic sense for publicity, the Lampoon editors have succeeded in acquiring quite a facility in arousing public feeling. "The Boston Evening American" with Mayor Russell as lead off man gave various citizens an opportunity to brand the ill-advised drawing with the telling marks of their disapproval. The Reverend Mr. Duval has attempted to stop the smoking mouth of Lampy with the dictum that the cartoon is "the worst insult ever perpetrated by a college publication against womanhood." William Randolph Hearst, tycoon of the "American" and one time Lampoon editor...
...total population (2,573,000) can neither read nor write.* Alabama education has had no great patron like Delaware's Pierre Samuel du Pont or New England's Edward Stephen Harkness. Last week, however, it was revealed that Alabama would get some $7,500,000 worth of brand new boys' schools, bequest of the late Harvey G. Woodward, Birmingham real estate and iron man who died last November...
Curls of scented smoke arose last week before a brand new bronze statue in the Kuonji temple gardens of Yamanashi Prefecture, 70 mi. from Tokyo. Musical instrument dealers bought bowls of sacred rice, hoped business would be better. Foreigners inspected the statue with interest. They saw a heroic bronze figure in the robes of a Buddhist priest but with the head of a large shaggy dog. In his lap rested a Buddhist nun with the head of a cat. Balanced precariously on top of the dog-headed priest was a little figure of Buddha, blessing the pair...
...backhanded compliment" to America (TIME. Dec. 8). Flaying the 50 academicians as a group, Mr. Lewis nevertheless made ten exceptions, evinced a weakness for: Nicholas Murray Butler (president of the Academy), Wilbur Lucius Cross, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, James Trus-low Adams, Hamlin Garland, Owen Wister, Brand Whitlock, Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington. But the Academy, he declared, "does not represent literary America today, it represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...