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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keystone sacker, lead the Tufts offensive, while Ellis is among the best leadoff men in college baseball. Arlenson, the local catcher, is reputed to have a good arm, and pilfered hassocks should be a rarity this afternoon. The outfield of the home team is more or less of an unknown quantity...
Parlor magic, unlike most other divisions of skill and science, is far from dominated by professionals. Unknown to the public are numberless amateurs. They play a game of baffle among themselves. Some 500 members, amateur and professional, of the Society of American Magicians (total membership about 1,650), held their annual convention last week in Manhattan and brotherly baffling was the order of the hour. The magicians dined and danced. Then, in secret session, they baffled each other and exchanged secrets about new or improved apparatus, magicianly "patter" (conversation) and humor, the art of distracting the attention of the tricked...
...editor. Then its letters were exchanged for issues, its policies became freedom of speech, release of political prisoners. In 1920 under the leadership of Adviser Thayer, it became a monthly with a program devoted to esoteric odds and ends, good printing, and giving a chance to rare or unknown authors whom Adviser Scofield considered worth while. Some of the Dial's feats and features were: D. H. Lawrence's long short-story, "The Man Who Loved Islands," Arthur Symon's obituary estimate of Thomas Hardy; the first pages of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West...
This system would be applied with difficulty to such an office as that of orator. Few people would attend or even be interested in a speaking competition. However, it would undoubtedly remove the most glaring fault which allows a man whose capacities may be unknown to be elected because his name happened to have received more publicity than his opponents...
...good oarsman and if he can adapt himself to the other side of the boat he may show up better in the future. Neither Swaim nor Watts have figured much during the last week since both are known quantities and Coach Brown is now more interested in letting the unknown men prove their worth...