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Freshmen who will represent Harvard against Yale tonight are C. N. Comstock. M. V. Anastos, and F. B. Thurber, with G. M. Parker as alternate. Those debating Princeton at Princeton, will be E. H. Hubbard, R. H. Sharp and P. D. Silverman, M. W. Mansur will act as alternate. These men left Cambridge yesterday for Princeton, where they will be entertained over the week-end by the Princeton Debating Council...
...Freshmen debaters who will oppose Yale will be; C. N. Comstock, M. V. Anastos, and F. B. Thurber, with G. M. Parker as alternate. E. H. Hubbard. P. H. Sharp, and J. H. Silverman will argue against Princeton. M. W. Mansur will act as alternate...
...lashing as they do well deserve. For one could even cherish a Vagabond after reading of the vices and dirty dealing of the apostolic horde. Also it might be mentioned that a local divine, after reading the first chapter did say, A dull book." He then turned to "Anthony Comstock" and swooned. Perhaps he is the gentle sould whose word is taking the latest output of the Viennese author of "Beatrice" from the shelves of greater and lesser Boston...
Eleven years ago, the late Mr. Comstock's New York Society for the Suppression of Vice had to find a new chief. Mr. Sumner, then a Wall Street lawyer, landed the job. He guesses he inclined to it because his ancestors were Puritans, one was a Mayflower passenger, and because obscene pictures were twice showed to him by rowdies at high school. He moved into the cosy office in West 22nd Street, where the basement is jammed with part of Crusader Comstock's 61 carloads of assorted obscenity. He strove cheerfully to administer well...
Where Anthony Comstock was a berserk lion of purity, Mr. Sumner dislikes being thought of as a reformer. His smile and forbearance are of the efficient Y. M. C. A. type. With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer. In the performance of his duties, he avoids "scenes" by working hand in glove with Manhattan's district attorney, at present, one Joab H. Banton, whose definition of art is "the beautiful as opposed to the realistic," who regards certain plays of Sophocles as indecent, who says, "My God, if Christianity has not advanced us beyond the stage...