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After all, Freshmen will not dispose of their capital without some compensation. They are "casting their bread upon the waters", and the vigor with which they maintain this fruitful tradition will be reflected, even unto the second and third generations; for in May, 1926, their bread will "return again". Such an extremely intelligent and capable Freshman class will not neglect this opportunity to provide for old age and an impoverished future...
Eagan (who while an undergraduate at Yale three years ago was petitioned by Dempsey to be his sparring partner) was pitted against one Hulks in the final. " Eagan, full of vigor, dropped his opponent to the floor with a forceful body blow. Hulks' head struck the boards rather heavily and the referee stopped the contest...
...conjecture market is still as lively as ever. Why were these gratuitous prophecies made so early and so positively? There is at least one plausible answer. Perhaps their object is to put a damper on insurgents within the Republican ranks. These rebels, attracted by the vigor of a Borah or the vote-swinging power of a Johnson, have been spreading sly stories about the President's discouragement over his work. They have bored from within, intending to scuttle the ship quietly when the time was ripe. They have imagined that they could persuade him of his unfitness for office...
FOUR OF A KIND?J. P. Marquand ?Scribner's ($1.75). This volume is made up of four swift-moving, active, unpretentious tales. They are a little longer than short stories, not long enough to be called novels. Their chief merit rests in the young author's vigor of presentation, his quick eye for externals, a certain freshness of viewpoint. One of the four is concerned with a prizefighter; another with a debutante; the third story is set in an advertising office; the last is a tale of horses and the riding thereof...
...club who has just recently died. After a severe yet impressive beginning in the two pieces of old church music, the concert took on a distinctly modern tone--a radical change from Dr. Davison's usual course. Mr. Converse's "Laudate Dominum" was particularly striking in its vigor and tone, filled out as it was by trombones and horns. As for the "Deux Choeurs" by J. Guy Ropartz, they were remarkable only because they were dedicated to the Harvard Glee Club...