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Dates: during 1910-1919
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The plot concerns a $30,000 wager that the leading character can elude the police for one year. A phrase "Believe Me, Xantippe," habitually used by the fugitive reveals his identity, and he is arrested, but ultimately wins the wager on a technicality. The play is suitably adapted for amateur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESENT CRAIG PRIZE PLAY | 5/7/1917 | See Source »

Passing over a couple of poems, one of which, "The Hours Between," has a certain tenuous charm, we come to "Aunt," a fairly successful character study in the conventional English A manner, and to "A Farewell to Epicurus. The latter is a skillfully-phrased and academically admirable poem of Mr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Timidity in Current Monthly | 5/5/1917 | See Source »

The present number is a fairly good example, moreover, of the Monthly's virtues and vices. In the first place, there is none of that timidity before experience that is usually the earmark of the writings of undergraduates. The stories and impressionistic essays have in common, despite these differences in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Timidity in Current Monthly | 5/5/1917 | See Source »

"Very few people know about the character or the service performed by the Signal Corps. A country might have a very efficient and large army, but if the signal corps was neglected, the other branches would operate under an almost impossible handicap. Brigadier-General George P. Scriven has aptly termed...

Author: By Capt. C. E. russell and U. S. Signal corps., S | Title: SIGNAL CORPS CALLED NERVE SYSTEM OF ARMY | 4/28/1917 | See Source »

The Law School alone offers no opportunity for its students to conclude their year of study and to go at once into training. It is true that the study of law is such that it may not readily be broken off or curtailed. It is true that a lawyer's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAW OF WAR | 4/24/1917 | See Source »

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