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...door banged. Alfred Haine who runs a little inn in the village of Marche-les-Dames looked up just at dinner time to see a man in tweeds, very pale, very breathless, but despite his nervousness, very polite...
...endowment fund cannot immediately be raised, which is highly likely, Mr. Bingham suggests that the present Varsity Boat House be sold, and the money used for upkeep until the endowment be raised. This boat house is situated on a point said to be a fine site for an inn, and conservative estimates claim that it would bring $15,000 as it stands, which would enable the remainder of Red Top to continue its activity until money had been raised to fund its yearly upkeep. The Variety crew would be quartered in the Freshman house, and the Freshman would be forced...
...hero of the novel is Myron angle, as uninteresting a character as the Mr. Lewis has yet turned out. In this he burns an insatiable passion for the temptation of the Perfect American Inn, similar to the poet's dreams of writing the Perfect Poem. Myron is not a business man steeped in Babbittry, but a maniac whose fanaticism, tempered with practical vision and intelligence, carries him from his father's sleepy hostelry in Black Thread, Connecticut, to the top rank of the "Mine Hosts" of America. His vicissitudes in the course that progress constitute the thread the story...
...Myron Weagle, but in the setting, the vast panorama of American hospitality in 1897 down to the present day. Mr. Lewis has studied with his usual his subject and its settings, from "Westward Ho! Hotel" of New York in the early 1900's to Myron's new modern inn in Connecticut, not forgetting even the Tourist Camp of 1933. It still retains that splendid and vivid connectivity of description which characterized "Babbitt," and he has had the good fortune or the wisdom to choose a subject which has proved, in the "Imperial Palace" and in "Grand Hotel" that...
...college in the Nationals two years ago, are still contesting the last two positions. So far the results of the tryouts have been as follows: Howes defeated Archibald Cox '34, and lost in turn to J. M. Hall; Hall, who has been playing on the Lincoln's Inn team, defeated Bowditch, of the Graduates' team, before playing Howes; in the lower bracket, Hartford and Clark have successfully defeated Amos Eno, W. B. Hodges, and H. Black, and are to meet and decide the fourth place on the team; the loser of the match will play Howes for fifth place...