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This scholarship is intended to assist men on their graduation from college in the development of their talent...
...many men the competition for places in the Freshman Glee Club seems unusually severe and discouraging--and here the Hall Choruses play a useful part. Not only are they the proving ground for future choristers, but they serve to develop the latent talent in many Freshmen not quite good enough for the Glee Club. After all it is not important as to which of the halls renders "Upidee" or "The Tavern in the Town" most tunefully; the all-important purpose is to get the Freshmen together, and incidentally to interest a large number in singing and music--men who otherwise...
...field of portraiture that Bellows' greatest talent is found. His oil painting, Introducing John L. Sullivan, clearly shows that he is at his best when treating his favorite subject-the boxing ring. This same subject is even more strikingly handled in his lithographs; the picture Firpo Knocks Out Dempsey is most vivid, both in the drawing of the naked, perspiring bodies of the fighters and in the faces and poses of the spectators and ring officials caught in a moment of suspense...
...young writers knew how eagerly great publishing houses are constantly searching manuscripts for new talent, they would be encouraged to enter the profession...
...ever more impersonal in his attitude toward government, and that very impersonality was the characteristic which most baffled the American people. Mr. Wilson had a genius for advocacy of great principles, but he had no talent whatever for advocating himself...