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...three centers. Green has been in the infirmary most of the week, and will not be able to don a uniform until the middle of next week, McCurdy, like Slocum, has a sprained ankle which has kept him from practice since the Hebron game. Lane, the third string center, has been troubled with a painful foot all week, and will not be used except in an emergency, today. The other casualty, Oothout, will probably start the game, but he is not yet in good condition...
...strongest school boy team in Maine, came from behind late in the second half to snatch victory from the Crimson first year men. The 1928 quintet was handicapped after the first few minutes of play by the loss of Slocum, the brilliant right forward, and of McCurdy, the second string center, who started the game in Green's place. Both received ankle injuries which may keep them out of next Saturday's game...
Unlike this sketch, the three prose narratives are not prose in conception, excellent as is the detailed style in each. "The Iron String" by Charles Allen Smart condenses the material of a novel into reminiscence, as introduction to a pretty turn of direction in mood that might have been the perfect idea of a lyric. The treatment of material indicates a failure to see the prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful...
...been long in America, but he is a keen observer. Few things escape him. The largest cities, the tallest buildings, the fastest railroads, the colleges, the newest books, the latest fads Mr. I is all ears as he hears Americans string superlative epithets end on end with that naivete which implies that the largest, the tallest, the fastest, the richest, the newest, the latest, must of necessity be the best...
From the latest national case of public corruption to an unimportant and allegedly profiteering string of restaurants is indeed a plunge from the supremely contemptible to the ridiculously insignificant...