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...humour and wit of past Don Marquis stories are not lacking in his last novel, "Sons of the Puritans", concerning the life of a boy in the small-town atmosphere of Hazelton, Illinois. Still, the undercurrent which flows through the whole book is one of tragedy. For Marquis the tragic and comic are not conflicting elements, but intermingle to make up life itself...
...Marquis had not finished the novel before his death. He intended to have Jack break away go to New York, and perhaps to Europe to fight in the World War. When Don Marquis tried to follow Jack from Hazelton to New York, he was beaten. He could not go on, for to break away from Hazelton society in the last few chapters would certainly not be wholly satisfactory. "Sons of the Puritans", as it stands now, is more than satisfactory...
...Leverett House members of the House committee must stand for reelection in their Junior year, and at the last election Barnes and William H. Wright '38 were reelected. Two other Juniors were also elected for the first time. They are John C. Harkness '38 and Ernest D. Hazelton '38. Robert M. Coquillette '39 was the sole Sophomore added to the committee...
...Jones, was intercepted by postal officials. Former Sheriff Luther Kniffen's box had a defective fuse. Harry Goul-stone, superintendent of a local colliery, doused his in a bucket of water. Sixth, apparently intended for Gorman, onetime umpire of the Anthracite Board of Conciliation, was intercepted at Hazelton before it reached another James Gorman. That evening fire, supposed to have been started by an incendiary bomb, gutted the first floor of St. Mary's Rectory of Wilkes-Barre...
...reconstruction of "tone texts," but although the materials existed ready to hand, one might almost say that it was not until our own day that stage histories like that of Dr. Noyes began to appear. The pioneers in this branch of study in America have been Professor Hazelton Spencer of Johns Hopkins, Professor A. C. Sprague of Harvard and Professor Leslie Hotson of Haverford College. With this book Dr. Noyes joins that company of specialists and adds the account of Ben Jonson's fate during the Restoration and the XVIIIth century to the tales already told of how Shakespeare...