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...treatment of the theme of the struggle in a man's affections between the love of a woman and the lure of "the old trail." It is clearly conceived and vividly presented. Mr. Wright is clearly very sensitive to atmosphere, and at times tempted to deal with it to excess, even when it is an essential part of the story. His style would gain in masculinity by a greater restraint in the use of adjectives. In "The Ominous Tract"--a somewhat oracular title--Arthur Wilson has a real story to tell, and tells it with genuine effectiveness. Irving Pichel...
Something in excess of 20,000 was the number of applications to the Yale football management for tickets to the Harvard game, as announced today. Over 6,000 had to be returned to disappointed applicants; but this morning several batches of tickets were returned and these were used to fill what applications still remained at the office...
...report of the Graduate Treasurer of Athletics for last year shows an excess of receipts over expenditures of slightly over $100 less than the year previous, but in the light of other factors, this is a brilliant showing. The increase in the general expense account was caused by the reorganization which has taken place in the business methods of the office. From the fact that the average daily receipts and expenses at the athletic office are over $420, the necessity of most thorough and accurate book-keeping is readily appreciated...
...instant and lasting popularity or admiration from other men by being such rakish chaps, and in the second, they should have learned to behave in a respectable way despite the circumstances. What a surprise it would be if these roving bands, without being urged, should hereafter when excess of spirit or spirits overtakes them, retire to some vacant field and there make all the noise they care to far from the shades of Cambridge and the open windows of members of athletic teams, which these same bands supposedly wish to see win games. G. P. GARDNER...
...Stadium, as is well known, is in part the gift of the class of 1879 on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation. The President and Fellows accepted the gift, brought the building to something like completion, received from the Athletic Association interest on the excess of the cost over the cost over the amount paid by the class of 1879, and received the principal from the same source in instalments. The very large sum required of the Association in payment for the Stadium has delayed work on the unre-claimed parts of Soldiers Field. When the committee, eager...