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Since Cook's entrances are infrequent, since the musical score is chiefly valuable for spurring on the skaters, the performance rests largely on the skating. Enthusiasts for the art will find just about every variety they could want, from the classic duos of Hedi Stenuf and Skippy Baxter through some highly ludicrous comedy gliding to the syncopated mastery of an auburn-haired young woman named Le Verne. By way of encouragement to the patriotic spirit of the times, the production closes with a copper-tinted ballet entitled What's On The Penny, reminding the audience that "E Pluribus...
...Hall located at 40 Quincy Street has been occupied by 40 Freshmen for the past two years and by vote of the Corporation was named Walker House this spring. It is famed as the home of such Harvard greats as President Walker, President Baxter of Williams and Professor Kirsopp Lake...
...second feature, "Earthbound," is a passable likeness of "Topper." Stoutish, ectoplasmic Warner Baxter plays Jiminy Cricket to pretty Andrea Leeds. She, shapely and substantial, makes the show and catches the crook...
...James Phinney Baxter, the distinguished American historian, at his induction as President of Williams College, remarked pointedly; "While Congress fumbled with the economic aspects of neutrality . . . too little attention has been paid to the risks of emotional involvement in war. We have heard much about British propaganda in the United States, but no adequate study has been made of the volunteer unpaid efforts of thousands of Americans to conduct 'pro-ally' propaganda themselves. If the next war brings democracies to grips with fascist states, the risks of emotional involvement will be still greater than they were twenty years...
...Baxter went further and discussed academic freedom: "Chancellor Capen of the University of Buffalo . . . before the Association of American University Professors . . . referred to the 'exhibitionists' and 'mountebanks' in the academic world 'who to feed their own vanity, recklessly stake the profession's most precious and hard-won possession'." Baxter's remaining discussion of "the danger that the teacher will seek to impose his own political beliefs on his students" merits study...