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...rejoice that Williston's portrait is to be presented. As a teacher he is without a poor; as a scholar and lawyer he is among Harvard's best of all time as will be appreciated more as we come to see how sanely he has mediated between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries and as a man is lovable...
This attitude, if representative of a phase of the nineteenth century, has in large measure been shattered in the twentieth. Progressive leaders of the clergy, among them the new dean, Dr. Sperry, have come to feel the need for union in place of dissension. The fostering of a spirit of enlightened non-sectarianism is the most hopeful sign of a new Protestantism which will meet the individualism of today and still rest upon a broad, deep-rooted foundation...
Williams and Eaton were the only University players who won two matches, while Jones and Fleming lost on the nineteenth green and de Gersdorff finally went down on the twenty-second green in the day's most sensational match...
Shakspere, with a rating of 22.4, heads the list, while Billy Sunday with --21.8 ends it, Classical writers placed very high with three among the first fifteen. But were the zeros of "un-classicized critics discounted they would place still higher; Aeschylus, for example, now nineteenth would then stand fourth. The cases of tied popularity are enlightening. Dr. Johnson broke the tape with Krazy Kat; St. Augustine, Lenin, and Douglas Fairbanks were triple-tied: Flo Ziegfeld and Frederic the Great matched; and Geraldine Farrar and Henry Ford mated...
Among the specialty numbers will be one in which four members of the female chorus will dance in hoop-skirts and the accompanying dress of the nineteenth century, and a second where another quartet will enact a burlesque on Joseph,, Alger '22 and F. B. Taussig '22 will present a specialty number, a take off on the Duncan sisters...