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...members of the University interested in affairs of the theatre a charter membership in the club which will be organized at 3.05 this afternoon in Harvard 1. The speakers are Roland Young, star in "Beggar on Horseback", who will speak on "Audiences", and Wallace Eddinger, leading man in "Spin-Drift", who will discuss the annual scholarship which he is sponsoring for Harvard's most promising actor...
Coach Spuhn insisted on the strokes maintaining a low beat throughout the long spin. At this slow pace, the eight stroked by Captain Dudley Merrill '26 showed itself decidedly superior to the other crews, and forged steadily ahead. Coming in to the boathouse, Merrill raised the stroke to a 36 without much strain, and without destroying the evenness which had characterized the low beat...
Armillary Sphere is a great sundial cast in the design of that ancient astrological instrument, the armillary. Man and woman repose at its base; the goat, the lion, the bear, the ram, pursue each other in its wheels, while the armillary seems to spin, with slow laughter, through interstellar space...
Harry Greb, world's middleweight champion, is known as "The Pittsburgh Windmill." Against him in the Detroit Arena tilted a young Quixote, one Sage. Bravely the youth attacked. Idly, effortlessly, swung the arms of Greb, click-clack, like flails that spin in the wind. Sage, well-schooled in the naked tourney of this latterday, postured, lunged, but when he set himself to avoid one swinging flail, another descended unseen, caught him unchivalrous buffets. For twelve rounds, though out-pointed in every one, he kept returning to the hopeless encounter...
...shades of Shakespeare and Dumas may rattle in their shrouds, or whatever it is that shades do, for the plotless young author now has themes about which to spin his tales. But to be a real best seller Venus must now pursue her young Adonis through the gashouse district of New York ringing police boxes, while in order to feature in the brilliant pages of "Worthwhile Stories", the modern D'Artagan must, before starting out to crown cardinals, drop a note on the sergeant's desk, 8th Precinct, City of Boston...