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There are the players, who have furnished the competition, who have exhausted themselves in a great match of wit and abilities. They are to be congratulated for their notable contribution to the histories of Harvard and Yale. It is the teams which met today, as well as their predecessors in the Stadium and in the Bowl, that have supplied the meetest realization of the rivalry and friendship which have ever existed between Yale and Harvard. The conduct of all such delegates of the two institutions has built up a festive tradition that has long been regarded by Harvard and Yale...
...that his step was a little more feeble, that he sat and rose with a little more difficulty. During this term Mr. Justice Holmes has been more silent, less smiling than usual. Rarely now does he interrupt an arguing attorney with a barbed question or a comment flashing with wit. He is, his eight friends on the bench now sadly agree, aging...
...wish: it contains one of the best [is ever offered to a long--suffering public. The rest of the book is certainly far below the standard set at the start. Mr. Land has not done himself justice this time. He can write, as his publishers say, "with verve and wit;" in "LAQUACITIES," however, from page 19 on these characteristics are lacking...
Died. Barbara Marquis, 13, frail daughter of Donald Robert Perry ("Don") Marquis, Manhattan wit; of pneumonia; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Like her father a talented versifier, she had lately written, edited, managed, multi-graphed and circulated a paper called The California...
...highly dangerous youth derisively leveling the shafts of his Socialistic ridicule at the respectability of tht Victorian generation. Now Mr. Shaw is himself old and must in turn submit of an examination of his work at the hands of other young men provided with a new variety of wit and insight. Mr. Briuser speaks for the readers who have grown up since the War and to whom the "Men of the Nineties" are almost as distant as the Elizabethans...