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Professor Theodore P. Lyman '97 will lecture under the auspices of the University post of the American Legion on "Sound and Flash Ranging" at the Varsity Club at 8 o'clock this evening. Members of the University who are taking courses in the Military Science department are specially invited...
Perhaps. We are inclined to think otherwise. Granted, the faithful painting of folly; granted, the momentary amusement. We still fail to find in his heetic, meteoric career anything permanent, anything constructive, or even anything literary. Keats, in one of his letters, speaks of Lord Byron's latest "flash poem", much as Barrie, for example, might speak of Fitzgerald; yet the flash poems of Byron are deep philosophic treatises compared with Fitzgerald's outbursts. Not that every story should be expected to bear its moral or illumine its great Truth...Heaven for-fend!; but certainly something more than the surface flush...
...Island has at times, however, given evidence of a powerful attack and has in its line-up several hard-hitters, notably Labree, center fielder, who secured three hits in four times at bat against Brown. The Rhode Islanders lost this game 8-4, but if they can display another flash of the power that they showed in certain innings of this contest, it will take the Crimson's full strength to gain another victory...
...past few weeks, A. C. M. 1 appears the logical winner, but the first experienced football eight, outweighing its rivals 15 pounds to the man, has already proved its capacity for speed and endurance in several practice brushes and should furnish stubborn resistance. The inexperienced football men exhibited a flash of form last Friday when they gained a marginal decision of three feet over...
...difficulty of judging the comparative merits of short stories is greater than in many other forms of literary effort, inasmuch as the decision is more than likely to rest, not on the method of handling the material, but upon the subject matter itself. A short story is a flash, a glance--nothing more; picturing a bit of life, a short series of incidents, of the effect of events upon the participants. Considering this, the committee has in its general selection been extremely happy. No one field of human endeavor has the more ponderous, more "literary" type prevailed entirely. One thought...