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Four Harvard men received honorable mention. "The Three Jests" by C. C. Abbott '28, "The Bypaths," by Howard Finney, "How Christmas Cheer Came to the Chain Gang," by J. N. Leonard '25, and "Monotone" by G. P. Ludlam '25, were named as "stories of distinction...
...silver-bedight but quite deserted-an orchestra crooning overhead-and a great crowd of women seizing catalogs surged ahead into the east wing of the Art Institute in Chicago to the opening of the 38th annual exhibit of American painting and sculpture. On the walls of the great chain of rooms hung 110 portrait and figure pieces, 91 landscapes, 18 marines, 16 still life paintings, and here and there on pedestals were scattered 58 pieces of sculpture-exhibits chosen from 1,200 items submitted. The women surged about...
While still in his teens he commenced to build up the great chain of establishments trading between Italy and the Near East, which have given him wealth, power and the opportunity to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. His rise to diplomatic prominence cama when Premier Giolitti called upon him, as an authority in Near Eastern affairs, to negotiate the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). And since then his success as Governor of Tripoli, and later as Finance Minister, has endeared him greatly to the House of Savoy and set him high...
...down the side doors of the Royal Aquarium to get a look at him, Sandow met Samson. Samson began by bending an iron bar over arms, calf and neck. Sandow copied him. Next Samson burst a wire cable wound around his chest. Sandow burst its fellow. Samson snapped a chain on the muscles of his arm. The chain was too small for Sandow. He called for his big dumbbell. The greatest moment of his life had come...
...dumb-bell weighed 280 pounds. He hoisted it high over head with one hand, lay down on the stage with it, cuddled and caressed it and rose again while the Aquarium rocked with cheers. He fastened chains around his arms, lifted that beloved titanic dumb-bell and burst every chain before putting it down. Samson refused to proceed any further...