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...piece surviving to a cynical and indifferent age. Born in London in 1852, he was brought up by his Spanish grandmother and his Scotch father, lived through enough careers in his 84 years to make such celebrated literary men of action as Doughty or Wilfrid Blunt seem sedentary by comparison. Leaving school before he was 17, he sailed to South America, traded in cattle and mules, traveled across Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, learned to ride like a Gaucho and usually lived like one. At 27 he married a Chilean, "Gabriella, the daughter of Don Francisco Jose de la Balmondiere," took...
Because responsibility and a knowledge of Harvard life which Freshmen cannot possess are necessary for the construction of editorials, this board of the CRIMSON is open only to men of the Sophomore class. The lightness of the work in comparison with the routine of the News Board is balanced by an insistence upon completeness of material and a well-informed point of view. As a result, time that would on the News Board be spent chasing stories must be devoted to research into the workings of the University and discussion with the higher-ups of the possibility of improving...
...malodorous nuisance. Last week the National Horse Show entered the second half of its first century as a New York institution. Though it could not be said to have opened the social season, already in full swing, it made all old horse shows look uncombed and shabby by comparison...
Actually the case in New Jersey offers no points of comparison with the Hanfstaengl situation. While Princeton's gift is from a private American source, Harvard's was from an official of a foreign government, and a government that has done everything in its power to destroy the ideals of education for which Harvard has battled so long. Furthermore, Hanfstaengl's award was a travelling fellowship for study in Germany, while Mr. Dubinsky's gift comes free of all strings, for general college funds. Thus no taint of subscribing to ideals contrary to the free educational system can attach...
...Publisher Ogden Reid's cousin. Hoover Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Another has been the behavior of its distinguished columnists-the lamentation of Mark Sullivan, the oscillation of Dorothy Thompson, the tergiversation of Walter Lippmann. Another has been its feature, ''The Roosevelt Record," a disparaging comparison of Roosevelt promise and performance syndicated to 18 other papers. But the most remarkable contribution to the Herald Tribune's, GOPolemics has been the work of an amateur, Mrs. Preston Davie...