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England has faced this fact, and the perils arising from it, with high resolve. Last week the careful Christian Science Monitor reported the appointment of a committee for the linguistic instruction of speakers in: the British Broadcasting Co. Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, Dramatist G. B. Shaw, Actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Professor Daniel Jones of London University, one L. P. Smith of the Society for Pure English, and Lecturer Lloyd James were the gentlemen selected to see that Britons should not, through hardening to voices in the air, fall into such malaproprieties as saying "acow-sticks" for "acoustics" "despick...
Their proof was better ever than their promise. They dropped very few games to Cochet and Brugnon and when William Johnston and Edward Chandler had disposed of Lacoste and Borotra the foreign menace had evaporated. Tilden and young Alfred Chapin met Richards and Williams in the finals...
...months. A Manhattan doctor examined her, emphasized this counsel, and as if everything had been settled the West Side Tennis Club confirmed the rumor that she would not defend her title this year Tilden. In the East-West team matches at Forest Hills, Tilden beat William M. ("Little Bill") Johnston, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1. It was a dull match. Johnston's game did not seem impressive, but then it has rarely seemed impressive against Tilden these last several years. Johnston can nearly always beat Vincent Richards, though Richards beats the champion oftener than anybody else...
...twin trunks of a tree about 60 feet from the ninth green. Frank Dolp, of Portland, Ore., turned his back to the pin, played a niblick shot between his legs, saw his ball stop 14 feet from the cup. He holed out in two, while Harrison R. ("Jimmie") Johnston, winner of the qualifying medal with a brilliant 141 and favorite to capture the Western Amateur title at St. Paul, missed a two-foot putt. On the 18th green Johnston's putter again faltered. He missed a six-footer and enabled Dolp to square the match. Johnston repeated with...
...Chamberlin, C. F. O. New Lect Hall Mr. Epstein. B. D. K. P. New Lect. Hall Mr. Kreps, G. Q. W. Memorial Hall Dr. Mason, L. R. Memorial Hall Mr. Opie, J. S. Memorial Hall Mr. Taylor, E. H. T. Memorial Hall Economics 4b Alken Bradlee Harvard 2 Brown Johnston Harvard 5 Katnick Zion Harvard 6 English 40 Sever 6 Fine Arts 1a Fogg Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 2b Fogg Small Rm. German 8 Emerson D German 25b Emerson D Government 4 Sever 29 Greek B Sec. II Sever 30 History 1a Felix Gay Emerson A Gubitosi Rupp Emerson...