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...Baldwin explained that his own reading of history had begun with Froissart, going on to Scott, Macaulay, Froude, Carlyle, Clarendon. He dwelt upon the opportunity for some historian to deal with the American Revolution from the viewpoint of the men who fought against Washington, from the viewpoint of "Old England" to whom the Revolution was, at the time, not an epoch-making event but simply a regrettable incident. Polite answers from the U. S. historians present greeted these remarks, but minds went back to ponder the proposition that bias is best in history. ... It was a reactionary proposition, quite...
...Curry will hold similar meetings at 4.15 o'clock every afternoon this week at the First Baptist Church, at the corner of Clarendon Street and Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, which students who are unable to go to the evening meetings may attend...
...Elsie Clarendon (Miss Lawrence) is engaged to a startlingly stern, spectacled young artist (Geoffrey Kerr). Just the week before her wedding, there appears a handsome and extremely affable young gentleman from Holland (Vernon Steele). She cuts dates with her fiancé to motor with this new arrival and then directs the new arrival to disappear. Fifteen minutes before the wedding, he can contain himself no longer and returns. The bridegroom, reasonably and yet quite unreasonably irritated, makes a scene. The bride hurls her wedding bouquet on the floor, swears at him with authentic modern fervor and falls into the Dutchman...
...latter's exhibition in the gallery of the Copley Society on Clarendon street, I heard strange things. A pacifist and an intellectual of distinction kept insisting that every canvas was wholly "theatrical," using the word in the most disparaging sense. Now it is not to be doubted that austerity in America is a quality rare enough to appear to be "ex machina." But seeing a miracle, to suppose that there must be pullies and cardboard is to be really suspicious and of small soul. A modern scientific mind noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their...
...Intercollegiate Socialist Society and the Fabian Club will hold a joint conference and dinner at Grundmann's Studios, 198 Clarendon street, Boston; this evening at 6.15 o'clock. The topic for discussion will be military preparedness, put as a question, "Shall we Prepare?" Four prominent speakers will open the debate and afterwards the floor will be open for general discussion. Dr. E. H. Gruening '07, Managing Editor of the Boston Traveller, and G. W. Harris, professor of chemistry at Simmons College, will uphold the necessity of greater military protection, while Miss Emily Balch, professor of economics at Wellesley College...