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...Revues naturally fall into two classes, one which demands nothing of the audience but open eyes and attentive years, and the other which makes the audience meet it half-way," stated Andre Charlot, well known as the originator and producer of Charlot's Revues, to an interviewer who was still puffing after the arduous climb up the spiral stairway which twists from the floor back stage up toward the mase of curtains and back drops to the dressing rooms of the New Park Theatre...
...extraordinarily far-sighted and generous policy toward China on the part of Great Britain has been announced by Sir Austen Chamberlain. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and may be regarded as a decided step forward in the attitude of the Western world toward the East England has gone more than half-way in its effort to reach a settlement with China, considering not the inconvenience of the moment, but relations with China for the next hundred years." All the points stated by China have been accepted, extra-territoriality, the tariff and the matter of the concessions. Such a degree of conciliatory...
Elihu Yale was the son of David Yale, a merchant whose house stood on what was then known as Pemberton Hill, a prominence about half-way from Scollay Square and the Court House, which was cut down in the last century. It was not until recent years that the birthplace of the Governor of Madras was located, owing to the fact that geneologists were net aware that David was the father of Elihu. During some researches carried on for English societies, it was discovered by Waters, a prominent Boston geneologist, that Elihu was the son of David Yale, or Yeale...
...since the widening scope of scholarship has intensified specialization, extended research work has come to be considered a necessity. Consequently the Ph.D. has superseded it as the general goal of graduate study. Because of this the master's degree has been reduced to the dubious position of a half-way house between dilletantism and scholarship...
Fourth place was taken by Captain M. L. Smith of Yale; after he had led the entire field almost to the half-way mark. It was not until they reached the Watertown bridge that the three Crimson runners passed the Eli leader. Smith's time was 28 minutes 53 seconds, or just 23 seconds behind Haggerty. The Bulldog captain's poor showing was undoubtedly due to an early season injury, which has kept him out of several meets this year...