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...Macfarlane is a Scotchman, 68 years old, educated in Edinburgh. He was Professor of Botany at Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1919 and stands high in his specialty. He has been studying the relation of fish to petroleum for 50 years. Scientists familiar with his work attest its authenticity...
...great deal of encouragement and assistance. Since that time his plays have been enthusiastically received and have had long runs in the theatres, while the printed editions of his works have been rapidly exhausted. The phenomenal success of "He Who Gets Slapped" and the large sales of his works, attest the keen interest and appreciation he is receiving in this country...
...does the greatest service to literature is not he who turns his back on his public but he who seeks to interest that public and at the same time to hold his standards high. That this can be done the experience of many magazine and publishing houses will attest. That it can be done in a college community which is supposedly--and I believe actually--an intelligent community, I cannot bring myself seriously to doubt...
...misses, perhaps, something in the nature of the essay. What has become of the periodical slam at the Classics--or the teachers of them, for the Classics themselves are impregnable--which we seem to remember in ante-bellum days? Yet the crisp editorials attest the power to produce the essay. A typical one, on the S. A. T. C., if rather one-sided and possibly even unfair, rigorously expresses what most of us think about the relation between College and the Government; and the reverent and discerning words of the editors on Theodore Roosevelt recall his connection, while in College...
...Theodore Roosevelt. Congress will meet in joint session that day and by unanimous vote of both houses the eulogy on their behalf will be delivered by Henry Cabot Lodge. His selection for that solemn service has an appropriateness that the country was no less quick than the Congress to attest. The Governor of New York, Colonel Roosevelt's life long State, has set the example which other governors are following in rapid succession, the Governor of Rhode Island being the first of the New England governors to set the day apart, by formal proclamation for services commemorative of the life...