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...that ending, it is fabulous! Lo, what does our good Walter do but marry the girl, and settle down to a life as a farmer, leaving his great financial business, his New York apartment and his four menservants in the lurch. The reader is expected to sympathize with this move, and, if the experience of the reviewer is any criterion, fails pitifully. All this despite the assistance of a scene at the end, when a New York swell of Mr. Overlook's acquaintance hits the trail to Maine to find out what has happened to that financier...

Author: By R. B. Gowing, | Title: IMMORTAL LONGINGS. By Ben Ames Williams. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1927. $2.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

With this the CRIMSON is in accordance in so far as such a move would not change the present status of clubs in the life of the undergraduate; in so far as it would leave non-club members in possession of their present freedom from inhibitions regarding social desirability. Just exactly what is referred to by 'capacity' is not quite evident; but one may presume that it means facilities with which each club could comfortably feed its members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUBS | 5/14/1927 | See Source »

...think that aviation has a great future," he continued. "Through airplanes, the world is going to advance even more than it has with the invention of the steam engine and electricity. The airplane will make everything move faster, and consequently faster progress. I believe that in a very few years airplane trips to Europe from America will not be considered unusual affairs. They will be made by business men and vacationers, and will be thought of as perfectly natural means of journeying. No doubt, within a few years, trips like I am now making will be common. People will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Pinedo, Ace of the Air, Fore sees Winged Pleasure Trips Round the World--Pleased With New Plane, Santa Maria II | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

...This move is one which has been advocated for the East for a number of years and W. J. Bingham '16 in carrying it through hopes to eliminate any possible influence which might be exerted one way or the other on officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outsider to Select Officials for 1927 Crimson-Eli Classic | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

From Mount Tzar the party will move over to British Columbia, re-crossing into Alberta by the Athabaska Pass, an old fur-trade route first crossed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTHEIMER TO SCALE FOUR MOUNTAIN PEAKS | 5/10/1927 | See Source »