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...speech had to do with international War debts and leniency of creditor to debtor in hard times (see p. 16), it contained undertones such as might be found in the words of any presidential possibility. Excerpts: "We need to know more of the world as it is and to discard for ourselves, as we have for our daughters, the hoopskirts and false unfrankness of the crinoline age. . . . Our politics raises its petty barriers [the Republican tariff?] oblivious of the mighty forces which men have let loose upon themselves. . . . "Our economics are necessarily international because of our interdependence upon each other...
...Copley Theatre is closing. The talking movie has made a stock company impractical. This may be a minor incident in the life of the theatre and it may be the hand writing on the wall. Some years ago the Copley was forced to discard the plays of Shaw, Molnar, and other of the contemporary immortals, because Boston was uninterested. The company then turned to mystery plays and trivial fantasies in an attempt to conform with local dramatic appreciation. For a time it seemed that the venture would succeed. But that, too, has failed...
...block for comparison with those of the grim government industry, a comparison that involves not only team play, but also individual undergraduate attitude and sportsmanship. But with the traditional slum and gravy signs, the future generals will come again for the annual fiasco, and John Harvard will discard his Bible for a glance at the future defenders of the rights of the peaceful...
...John Valentine Dittemore, onetime director of the Christian Science Church, deputy leader of the Church of Universal Design*: "The term Christian Science has been brought into widespread disfavor through the recent discovery of Mrs. Eddy's extensive plagiarisms, her secret use of drugs while instructing her followers to discard them and the claim that the discoveries in metaphysical healing of P. P. Quimby were her own." Contributing causes of the "widespread disfavor" were two recent books: Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher's Our New Religion and Edwin Franden Dakin's Mrs. Eddy: The Biography of a Virginal Mind...
...that he has not studied Algebra for two years. If the school believes that no boy expect one planning to be a linguist should give over half of his time to the rudiments of three foreign languages, and if it has sought relief from this necessity by attempting to discard the old plan entirely, he has not studied at all the extra language needed to complete the total of sixteen and one-half units...