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John Silas Reed '10, war correspondent of the Metropolitan Magazine and author of "Insurgent Mexico will deliver a lecture at the Tremont Temple this afternoon at three o'clock and will speak in the Union Sunday at 4.30. The subject of his talk will be his experiences in Europe. Mr. Reed made nine attempts to get to the front. On one occasion he was intercepted with several other correspondents and sentenced to death. The sentence was changed and the prisoners were started to Tours on foot, spending each night in jail. The trip would have required thirty-five days...
...spoke on the college actor and his relation to the professional stage at the open meeting of the Dramatic Club yesterday afternoon. In his talk he emphasized the need of plasticity in the college actor, pointing out the tendency of amateur actors to simply learn the lines of the author, and neglecting to correctly impersonate the character. The college actor should remember that he is merely a color in a pattern, a part of a "stock company", not a star of the evening. Professor baker stated that the only way to build up a role is to study stage directions...
Will you permit me as a graduate and M.A. from Harvard to state a few facts about myself in connection with the European war? I am aware indeed that even the word of honor of the holder of five university and college degrees and author of ten volumes of history will avail little against the leaden mass of ignorance and prejudice that weighs down our country. Permit me to say that I am the completes American both by descent and by bringing up, and that when I first went to Germany in 1884, after a year of the then wretched...
...Hill served as ambassador to Germany from 1908 to 1911. He was a member of the administrative council of the Hague Tribunal, and a delegate at the second peace conference of the Hague in 1907. He is the author of numerous works on diplomatic, social and political questions...
...opinion of able economists, the most important work on international trade by an American scholar. The subject has really not been treated in any new light since the time of John Stuart Mill, and a study such as this has been long awaited by students of the subject. The author is a great authority on the question, and his book is one of the most important which the University Press has yet published. It is one of the series of "Economic Studies," published under the Economics Department. Other important works in this series are now on the presses...