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Dean Briggs said that the facts of the poem were essentially true and that they were brought to Browning's notice through an old document which he picked up for a pittance. The author introduced his imagination and into the story wove a complex plot. The author shows a wide knowledge of Italy, but his most remarkable understanding is of the relations between man and woman. Browning was masculine to the core and it was this quality which enabled him to write so well on the subject. He put everything he had into his writing and this included human insight...
...Freshman hockey team went down to a 7-2 defeat yesterday afternoon when they faced the fast West-minster combination in a practice workout at the Arena. Captain Hodder's absence because of illness left a wide gap in the yearlings' second string line and it was doubtless this weakness which allowed the Westminster skaters to pile up the 7-2 score...
...keep the team alive from year to year. But a severe competition in minor sports is rare; a team is scraped together, and no more. To be sure, minor sport cannot offer the elaborate system and the large group of coaches which crew possesses. Yet there is a wide opportunity in this field for any and every man who wants to take regular exercise in competitive form and who has no objection to the possibility of a minor letter as a reward for interest in the games...
...Paul F. Godley found a way to make it practical for amateur short waves. This great improvement in sensitiveness lifted the distance into the several hundreds of miles, and opened up great areas over which the excited amateur could communicate. This development, it must be understood was country wide, in its scope, and what was going on in and around Boston was also going on in and around New York and Philadelphia and Chicago and San Francisco, and everywhere else...
Yale will have practically the same team as they had last year, when Campbell lead Captain D. F. O'Connell Jr. '21 of the Crimson relay team across the finish by a wide margin. Campbell, Hillis, Douglass and Vander Pyl, which is the probable make-up of the Eli quartet, with Campbell running at anchor, make up a team which should be hard to beat. But the University relay, with J. W. Burke '23 in the anchor position, and J. E. Merrill '24, W. F. Eaton '22, and J. A. McCarthy '22 as the other three probable members, should give...