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Many schoolboys with shining morning faces have heard their teacher expound the essence of the Monroe Doctrine. It is a part of the routine of education. But when the schoolboys are transformed into the American Bar Association (at Minneapolis), and the teacher is none less than the Secretary of State, whose interpretation of the famous Doctrine is the doctrine, the instruction is no longer routine...
...Fall, recently played a program of new piano works in Paris. The music, all of the most modern variety, included a sonata, Petrouschka, by Strawinsky. The piece is founded on the ballet, Petrouschka. Rubinstein, who is a subtle minded student in addition to his musicianship, has ideas to expound as well as music to play. He tells you, for instance, and with ardent seriousness, that musicians have a sixth sense...
...days when it is customary to expound the defects of the rising generation it is pleasant to find that youth often justifies itself in a quite unexpected manner to a quite unexpected degree, and confirms the suspicion of some of its teachers that it has rather more than its share of talent, ability and courage. A striking example of this has been given by the Harvard Dramatic Club, which entirely against the advice of many of the elders who were consulted decided to put on the stage Andreyev's "The Life of Man", and did so with more success than...
...writing our virgin editorial, we naturally attempt to ponder on the principles of composition. These three: coherence, unity and emphasis; but the greatest of these is when to stop. Discuss the athletic situation; expound the intricacies of trilogical cooperation of malfeasance of subsidized athletes, of the situation in one's own college--but then to stop. Consider the tutors of the English department, their merits, demerits, and absence, and stop. Stop before so much as considering the advisability of compulsory Chapel. Expostulate on the pseudo-stone pillars on University Hall now painted white and palpably wooden; on the stone steps...
Harry W. Laidler Ph.D., Columbia, who will expound socialism tonight, is an expert on labor and social problems, and the author of "Socialism is Thought and Action," and other treatises on modern subjects. He is at present the Secretary of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society and an active worker in the Socialist Party...