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Desire Under the Elms. Eugene G. O'Neill has contributed his first full-length play in two seasons and, many say, the best play of his invention. It is not a gentle evening, this beating with the hammer of tragedy on the rock pile of New England farmlife. It is the kind of thing the spectator will object to on the score that existence cannot possibly be so brutal. A young wife of an old farmer forfeits her claim to beatitude by lusting after the farmer's son. The latter couple have a child which stands between...
...grim men from Dartmouth and Cornell grappled at the Polo Grounds. Finding the Cornell line muscular, Dartmouth swept the ends, peppered 31 passes. Cornell stuck to her plugging game. The upshot was 27 to 14. Dartmouth's first success in four years against the dwellers "on the gray rock height...
...sound financial conditions, were now telegraphing their orders. Grizzled traders asserted that the Exchange was in the grip of an oldfashioned, bull railroad market such as has not been dreamt of for years. Big pools made profits. Many, stocks reached new high records for the year, among them: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; General Asphalt preferred ; New York, Lackawanna and Western ; Packard preferred ; Pennsylvania...
...June 26, 1917, the first U. S. troops sailed into St. Nazaire Bay, France, with a view to fighting Ger mans. On June 26, 1926, a statue will be unveiled on a jutting rock in St. Nazaire Bay to commemorate the event...
...Western college presidents, true education is no longer obtainable elsewhere than on a Western campus. Chicago has long been recognized as the year-round home of the Muses. A few decades more of this general hegira, and all that will remain East of the Alleghenies will be Plymouth Rock, Cleopatra's Needle, and the World's Series...