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...poem comparable in stature if not in epic quality with "John Brown's Body". The story is the simple theme of the love of two young people who are separated by obstacles which are overcome in their consummation. The obstacles this time are self imposed by the young man, Bruce Herrick, who fears that his blood is tainted with insanity. Rose, the girl he loves, by demonstrations of her deep love and faith, in him succeeds in driving out his inhibitions and restoring his self confidence. The plot is not involved nor is it reduced in its simplicity...
...liked him. He was closemouthed, closefisted, a hard worker, a hard master. He wanted to better Midland, give it a Methodist church, a bank, a grain elevator; but Midland did not want to be bettered, was not really sorry when one day the express train killed John Durken. Son Bruce came back from his Methodist college to be Midland's pastor. Better educated, more articulate a fanatic than his father, he raised more hell in Midland than old John had ever dreamed of or wanted...
...Bruce and Myrtle had been engaged be fore he went away to college, but had quarreled because she did not want him to be a minister. Myrtle married her second choice. When she died in childbirth of her first baby, Bruce found they still loved each other, realized too late he might have saved her for himself. Too much a zealot for his easy-going townspeople, Bruce was soon unpopular, obviously doomed to failure. Besides, the town was too small for three churches, would never have had the third if it had not been for old John Durken. In trying...
Next day, Bruce's own mind almost unhinged, his Christian faith quite gone, he announced to the blind man his conversion to the Truth of Nature, said he would go out and preach under the trees against all churches. But Midland was spared this final apotheosis. That night an idiot boy set fire to the Methodist church, then hid in a barn. The boy's mother, frantic, thought he was still in the burning building. Bruce plunged in to save the idiot and went to glory in the flames...
Presentation of awards will be made by M. T. Copeland '07, professor of Marketing and chairman of the jury judging the contestants. The speakers at the dinner tonight will be Bruce Barton, well known writer and advertising man, who will talk on "Working with Words," and G. L. Sumner, president of the G. L. Sumner Company, whose subject will be "The Problem of Relating Advertising to Merchandising," In addition there will be a short address by Bernard Lichtenburg, vice president of the Alexander Hamilton Institute...