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Odysseus was ten years getting home from Troy. Therefore, Homer proves him a hero of the sort that is resourceful when shipwrecked, patient when detained. But Erskine proves him a liar of the sort that is shrewd enough in pursuit of romantic adventures, and shrewder yet in making them appear less romantic than brave. Not shrewd enough however to deceive Penelope with his tale of trying for ten years to get home. "Trying, my dear man! Who kept you back?"-"Fate."-"What was her other name...
With a horse, Ulysses loosed destruction over Troy. In 1871, Mrs. O'Leary did the same for Chicago with a petulant cow, which shattered an oil lantern in its straw-lined stall. Flames ran amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer stood in the ashes of his home. Suddenly, where was Bertha? Bertha had borrowed a buggy, careened into a nearby village, wired New York for an extension of credit. New York agreed, and-phoenix-like-Chicago and the Potter Palmers soared together...
...Story. Hugo von Hofmannsthal* did the text for Strauss' Helen and laid the scene in Egypt. Helen and Menelaus are headed home. Troy has fallen. Hector and Achilles are dead. So is the graceful Paris, and by the same curved sword Helen too must die as an atonement to the Greeks. A sorceress learned all this from Muschel, a psychic shell which reported in a bold contralto a vision of Menelaus stealing hugger-mugger into the ship's hold, knife ready. Aithra, the sorceress, had strange powers. Just then she managed a mighty storm to stay the murderer...
...Peddie Snider, S. S. '29 Back 21 185 6 U of Chicago H. Stokes, E. P. '31 End 20 165 5-11 Cushing Sutton, E. B. '31 Back 20 173 5-11 Crosby H Swarthout, M. G. '30 End 22 172 5-7 Bordentown M. H. Troy, P. J. '30 End 20 175 5-11 Boston College H. Wolcott, J. J. '31 Back 19 170 5-10 Country Day Wolf, T. R. '30 Tackle 21 190 6 Choate Wolff, W. C. '31 Back 20 170 5-10 Polytechnic Prop
...Haven concert will launch the instrumental Clubs into their busy winter season. Plans for the Christmas trip have progressed, and it is definitely announced that the itinerary includes Rochester, Buffalo, and Chicago. Indianapolis, Utica, Syracuse, Toledo, Troy and Cleveland are the cities from which further choice will be made...