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Judges for this last debate of the year were Albert Norris '25 of Milton Academy and John R. Crane, instructor of Economics, while Robert J. Glaser '40 presided...
Albert Norris '25 of Milton Academy and John R. Crane, instructor in economies, will be judges. A third judge will be announced later...
...refuge at the Cistercian Monastery. He was William Devro, a steam-shovel operator from Providence. Devro did odd jobs for the monks, proved useful when it became necessary to enlarge the monastery's reservoir. At a small weekly stipend Devro was put in the cab of a steam crane, under the guidance of the community's civil engineer, Brother Hugh. One day a cable on the crane tore loose, struck Devro in the eye. The monks treated him in their infirmary, then sent him to a Providence hospital. He lost the sight of his eye, returned...
...failure to think straight from the facts, and to feel straight. . . ." Now and then Waldo Frank sees a few rays of hope filtering down through the nearly impenetrable jungle: in the work of such men as the late liberal journalists Randolph Bourne. Herbert Croly, the late poet Hart Crane. But unfortunately for the reader, when Waldo Frank approaches the appreciative he verges on the mystical, puts his audience to sleep or to flight. And his practical suggestions for clearing the jungle are likely to strike his hearers as more furious than sound: "I know a way out, if you want...
Like all good reporters, Royce Brier went thoroughly over his story's ground. Boy in Blue was three years writing. took Author Brier step by step over the Tennessee battlefields he tells about. And, like Stephen Crane, who had never seen a battle when he wrote his war masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Royce Brier reports fighting not as a tricky tit-tat-toe of tactics but a muddled melee of men. To stay-at-homes with a clear wrong view, the war might seem a campaign, a crusade, a cause...