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...Theatre, he shows his thorough familiarity with soldier life. The plot, which is a complicated one, deals principally with the married life of Colonel and Mrs. Bannard. The latter being much younger than her husband and finding an army post existence weary, has secret relations with a certain Lieutenant Ellsworth, but she soon discovers her error and then attempts to readjust her position with her husband...
...Simon '18; H. Wiener '20 vs. E. C. Johnson '20; J. R. Moore 2G vs. Howard R. Guild '17; R. C. Hardy vs. G. L. Howe '18; J. L. Tildsley '19 vs. J. Palache '18; R. S. Richards 1G vs. R. A. Talbot '19; E. M. Ellsworth '17 vs. V. E. Macy '20; F. Smith 1G vs. E. A. Hill '19; G. C. Means '18 vs. R. Hitchcock '18; K. Chase '19 vs. D. J. Kenefick '17; J. L. Roberts '20 vs. G. L. Wilson...
...William W. Ellsworth, who has recently retired from the presidency of the Century Company, has said that the tendency of college education is to make the young man of literary inclinations a critic rather than a creative artist. "I do not think," writes Mr. Ellsworth in an article for the New York Times, "that any one conversant with the situation can say that we have as many writers of real significance today as we had twenty or thirty years ago. And it is this that makes me doubtful as to the value to literature of our enormous machinery of higher...
...standard of education and culture in a country is apt to be judged by the character of literature produced by the country's authors during a certain period. Mr. Ellsworth bewails the decreasing number of good authors which this country has produced in the last two decades, and declares that the educational machinery of our colleges is at fault. It must be remembered that the population of the country has advanced with gigantic strides, and each decade has found American colleges struggling to expand their scolastic facilities in order to care for the mass of young men eager to learn...
...Higginson, Jr., '00, of Boston; Amory Glacier Hodges '74, of New York; Mark Antony DeWollfe Howe '87, of Boston; Hugh McKennan Landon '92, of Indianapolis, Ind.; John Pierpont Morgan '89, of New York (Overseer, 1909-15); William Thomas '73, of San Francisco, Cal.; Eliot Wadsworth '98, of Boston; Samuel Ellsworth Winslow '85, of Worcester...