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...call it the American Theatre," she cries, noting as she departs that Nola, tall, erect, indomitable on the bridge of the show boat Cotton Blossom, looks "like the River." The Significance. After hearing about show boats from Mr. Winthrop Ames, and rushing into the Midlands to amass properties and backdrops for a panoramic old-American production, Miss Ferber appears to have been so overcome by her discoveries that she felt justified in asking the audience to absorb and admire the stage-setting for 153 pages, before putting her characters in motion. Similarly, the reconstruction of Chicago is rich, racy...
...other hand, it is the effect of all this on the student which is the real reason for Phillips Brooks House. Other institutions could well amass seamen's libraries and discarded overalls, but they would have little influence on or small appeal to college students. The Phillips Brooks House is the natural outlet for the student's philanthropic tendencies, and as it directs this often very considerable energy into useful channels, it serves two purposes, and it seems, serves both with exceedingly good results...
...Marionettes. The business of importing continental novelties goes on apace. The present product is from Rome and is known locally as the Teatro del Piccoli. It comes with much journalistic information that the puppet show is the native drama of the land and that the operators amass family traditions much like those of our own Drews and Barrymores...
...only commend Mr. Hack's opinions. The tendency to cram for examinations, to haggle over marks, to amass information relative to nothing other than the mer possession of it, are all symptoms of an educational disease that this writer sees clearly. But whether we agree with Mr. Hack's constructive ideas or not, it is great relief to find in his work a fearless bidding to Mr. Flexner and his opponents to stop their howling. The world is tired of fighting over terms. If there are faults with modern education, negative criticism alone will not go far toward curing them...
...opportunities in journalism, they are boundless. Any man, no matter what his profession, would be the gainer by two or three years' devoted service as a newspaper reporter. The experience he would amass, in quick thinking, in the power of swift and direct expression, in knowledge of men and affairs, he would find invaluable. Often, after a few years of work, a reporter, thrown into contact with lawyers or doctors or scientists or business men, discovers in himself an unsuspected aptitude for one of these other pursuits, and leaves his first choice for the new. But he carries with...