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...onetime famed play, Shore Acres, was another. Garland was one of the discoverers of Stephen Crane; he admired Crane's genius, deprecated his habits, gave him many an ill-received lecture. He venerated Walt Whitman and was indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them all. On a visit to England, onetime Pitcher Garland met Cricketer Conan Doyle. Each upheld his favorite game: Doyle politely doubted the possibility of throwing a curve. Garland pitched...
...pure white blood, of the Aryan race, the Hindu traces his culture back 25 centuries (See Woodbridge Riley's Story of Ethics) settling in India where its hot sun darkened the skin, as it does that of our lifeguards today. And it was Emerson, Thoreau and Walt Whitman who first brought Hindu thought to the United States...
...Woodbury, N. J., Charles Riley, 32, jobless, killed his bride for going to work in a shirt factory...
...Howlett of Northwestern in the 150-yard back stroke and 200-yard breast stroke respectively, and Lobdell of Iowa in the fancy diving. . . One of the outstanding individual performances from the standpoint of the spectator will be the exhibition fancy diving from the high board by Mickey Riley. It was rumored last evening that he will furnish a sample of his ability along this line tonight as well as tomorrow. BY TIME...
...season in Paine Hall on Saturday night, the Harvard debating team gained a victory over its Yale opponents when the audience sustained its arguments by voting in the ratio of four to three. The judges, Captain R. S. Edwards of the Canadian Army, retired, and G. W. Riley of Cambridge, a former William and Mary debater, were evenly divided and referred the decision to a show of hands by the audience. J. M. Swigert '30 presided...