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...oratorical contest for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prizes was won last night by Arthur Gustave King '26 of Cambridge, who delivered Edgar Allen Poe's "The Bells". Edward Adams Sawin '25 of Cambridge, who recited "The Revelation" by Robert Service, was awarded the second prize' of $35, and James Harry Smith Jr. '25 of Tiptonville, Tennessee, the third prize of $25. Lee Wade Prize, won by King...
...this evening was determined by lot, and is as follows: "Pass Prosperity Around" A. J. Beveridge Fred Ashton Videon '25 "Call to Arms and Liberty or Death" Patrick Henry Joseph Fisher '24 "Speech at the Funeral of a Brother" Robert Ingersoll James Harry Smith Jr. '25 "The Bells" Edgar Allen Poe Arthur Gustave King '26 "The Necessity of Force" John M. Thurston Paul Whitcomb Williams '25 "The Minstrel's Curse" Ludwig Uhland Milton Arnold Kramer '26 "The Last Suttee" Rudyard Kipling Alvan Ruckman Grier Jr. '26 "Revelation" Robert Service Edward Adams Sawin '25 "Blainc--the Plumed Knight" Robert Ingersoll Julian...
...Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Published by Grosset and Dunlap...
...outcome of the elections is considered by experts to be dubious, if not foreboding. The situation was succinctly summed up by Sir Edgar Walton, High Commissioner for South Africa in London: "It is very possible that a Nationalist majority will be returned in the coming elections, and Nationalism in South Africa stands for Republicanism, although the Nationalists are not understood to be pressing their Republican views...
...MIRAGE-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The story of a man who has a "genius for self-laceration." He has loved a woman who is unworthy of him; and though he realizes the utter "waste of the ointment," he still is carried on-the helpless victim of a mirage-by fleeting glimpses of the woman that she might be. The book is profoundly analytical, studied with something of the grim irony that pervades the Spoon River Anthology. Its philosophy shifts at times from an almost Rabelaisian turn to Oriental mysticism, and back again...