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...words, which is saying a good deal. Mr. Walter Kramer questions the "etiquette" of a Harvard man's making such criticisms of a Yale man's productions, but what have these college-boy partisanships to do with serious matters of artistic beauty where large and vital loyalties are at stake? Suppose a Yale critic were to impugn the taste, which should set up a piece of poetic sentimentality like, let us say. Longfellow's "Psalm of Life" as a model and touchstone for young lovers of poetry. Should we not, Harvard and Yale men alike, regard him as performing...
...could hardly imagine a teapot small enough for this tempest. Mutual understanding seems to be circumscribed by a menu card. Be it admitted that great and holy causes are at stake on both sides and that "all is fair in love and war"; yet Mars would hardly stoop to wield a bill of fare...
...Millrose 600-yard run the Haughton trophy will be at stake, and may be carried beyond the seas this year, as two foreigners come to assault the American supremacy in this event. Hoff, world's pole vault record holder, and all-around Norwegian athlete, has decided to try his luck in the middle distance. He has been spending his training season at Dartmouth, getting into shape for the big meets. He is, besides, said to be an experienced ski-jumper, but did not go in for this sport while at Hanover because of the risk of injury...
...battle-fields of the Balkans and in the valleys of Armenia, find vent in less holy carnage on the Black Sea coast. But it must be tedious for the more peaceful Moslems to spend their mornings in detailed perusal of statute books, lost a life be at stake in the crease of a trouser leg or the tilt of a hat brim...
...state championship will be at stake tomorrow afternoon when the University squash team meets the outfit from the Boston Athletic Association at 2.30 o'clock on the University Squash courts. The two squads are now tied for first place and tomorrow's contest is the last on the schedule...