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...flattering to the American sense of superiority to find no spot, however remote, which does not honor the American Main Street by careful imitation. Henceforth, the wearied American can find no lotus laden sanctuary. The Old World is imbibing the go-getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland of material prosperity forsakes its tradition of philosophic detachment, and its business men burn the ancestral red fire before the clay-footed idol of Efficiency...
...prospects for the season seem good. Only three of last year's team have left the University, and there are eight regulars back. Captain A. E. Reed '26, T. B. Crane '25, G. T. Chase '25, W. M. Reynolds '26, G. B. Salter '26, J. E. Skilling '26, J. R. Sullivan '26, and H. L. Kelsey 3E.S., are all available. Of these eight men five are Juniors, who should be much better than a year ago when they had had no experience, and they were the mainstays of the team last season...
Among the lecturers for September are announced: Horace M. Kallen and Everett Dean Martin speaking on the same day from different viewpoints of psychology; Dr. Albert Loyal Crane, of Chicago, on "the unusual child and other fields of applied psychology"; Sinclair Lewis on "literary idiocies"; Bruce Bliven, of the New Republic, on political aspects of the age of jazz, the jazz press, Church and State, wild youth?a gamut of subjects. Herbert Adams Gibbons, journalist-professor, will "do" the Near and Far Easts...
...Birmingham of Oyster Bay, to be sailed by Harry L. Maxwell of Glen Cove, L. I. Paumonok, a new boat, designed by Gielow, built by Lawlet, owned by the Seawanhaka Syndicate, to be sailed by Sherman Hoyt of Oyster Bay. Heron, a new boat, designed by Crane, built by Nevins, owned and to be sailed by C. F. Havemeyer of Cold Spring, L. I. Madcap, a new boat, designed by F. M. Hoyt, built by Nevins, owned by Harry L. Maxwell, to be held in reserve in case of an accident to one of the four contenders. The international competition...
Dean of the coterie is Bruce Crane. He is exhibiting two canvases. Both embody the sort of delicate lyric treatment of wood scenes upon which his reputation rests-scenes having the atmosphere of a hazy, glamorous afternoon in the forest of Broceliande. There are other lyricists also who do very well with the same sort of thing-Frank Vincent DuMond, greeneries; William S. Robinson, mountain laurel in bloom; Guy Wiggins, birch saplings, crumbling walls. All this is the sympathetic rendering of local nature that is characteristic of Lyme exhibits. There are also artists who paint cattle, ballet-dancers, ships. Will...