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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which have to be adjusted in this most composite of arts, and his suggestions certainly have the spontaneous enthusiasm of youth. One point, however, is somewhat wide of the mark. The statement that "cities of any size abroad are able to support a company throughout the winter, whereas Boston cannot do this for eighteen weeks" merely records the chief practical difference between foreign management and our own. Every one of the leading opera houses of Germany and France is subsidized by the Government; i.e., even in long-established centres of artistic cultivation opera is not a paying commodity according...
...Report of the Phillips Brooks House Chapel Committee, which I am submitting must necessarily be in a preliminary form at this time, since definite figures for the year cannot be made up until June...
This may be discouraging, but it is the fact, and the fact has been so impressed on the minds of those interested in chapel that at last they have taken active steps to see whether or not we cannot be sure that each day will call men to chapel to hear a man whom the undergraduates want to hear. I think that nothing proves more conclusively the wisdom of this attempt than the almost enormous attendance which greets Professor Palmer and President Lowell and the others who are chosen to lead the services during early weeks of the college year...
...audience as was present at the "undergraduate night" of the Dramatic Club, -- an audience that was at first as critical and unencouraging as young persons of twenty too frequently are, and that had apparently come rather to dance after the performance than to enjoy the plays themselves. The audience cannot be honestly said to have appreciated the merits of the first piece, Mr. Brock's "The Bank Account"; but it warmed to Mr. Kinkead's satirical farce, "The Fourflushers," and received Mr. E. L. Beach's war-time drama, "The Clod" with really enthusiastic ardor. Thus the twelfth production...
...politics and philosophy its freedom and extreme liberalism, rather than any conservatism, have long been the only cause of complaint. The names of Lowell and Emerson in the past are well matched today by those of Lowell and Eliot, of James and Santayana, of Taussig and Hart. It cannot be denied that intellectual restraint does exist in many colleges. That it does not exist at Harvard is one of our proudest boasts. In theory, Senator Hollis was right: but in fact he was wrong. Harvard is widely praised and widely attacked for leading the liberal thought of the country...