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CHILDREN OF THE AGE-Knut Ham-sun- Knopf ($2.50). Lieutenant Wil-latz Holmsen is the third one of that name to be lord of Segelfoss Manor. His grandfather had founded the estate and his father had maintained it. But Lieutenant Willatz Holmsen has none of the qualities to continue this work. He is proud, for one thing. If a tenant does not pay his rent, he will not ask for it. People might think he needed the money. If a demand is made upon him, he will accede to it rather than admit even to himself that he cannot afford...
...Virginian. Kenneth Harlan is considerably less a ham than was the hero of Wister's novel. The backgrounds are wonders of nature...
...Chicago Opera Company, as all know, sprang out of the storied Ham- merstein venture. The formidable Oscar, putting on opera at the Man- hattan Opera House of New York, gave the Metropolitan management many bad dreams. But Hammerstein had no millionaires behind him. Opera war cost money. Finally he sold out to the Metropolitan. His chief orchestra conductor had been the shrewd and able Cleofonte Campanini, who now took the Hammerstein idea to Chicago. Chicago is the natural enemy of New York. Chicago would rival New York on the heights of opera. Campanini understood Americans as no American understands them...
...lacking today is common sense. The Eighteenth Amendment has raised an even more futile turmoil than that of the national house cleaning after the Civil War. At the Washington Citizenship Conference recently Governor Pinchot found that most of the trouble lay in the capital, the center of "political ham-stringing of the Federal Enforcement Service." Bryan demanded that the President and the Cabinet should publicly declare themselves teetotalers. Senator Borah thundered his denunciation of wealthy "whites" who defy the law. And on the other said Congressman Hill of Maryland has declared insolently that "if the Drys throw...
...Pollock's sects K1, K2, K3, K4 Emerson DMr. Wells's sects W1, W2, W3, W4 Harvard 5Greek 8 Sever 30History 16 Harvard 2History 35 Sever 6Mathematics A III Zool. Lect. Rm.Mathematics C III Zool. lect. Rm.Mathematics 7 Sever 6Mathematics 18 Sever 6Music 1a Sever 23Philosophy 5 Angiofsky-Ham Emerson APhilosophy 5 Harder-Zottoli Emerson JPhilosophy 8 Emerson JPhysics 4b Sever 30Semitic 8 Sever 23Semitic 14 Sem. Mus. 3Slavic 1a Emerson DSpanish 2 Harvard 3Zoology 3 Allen-Quintillian Sever 5Zoology 3 Rome-Zimmeerman Sever, 6Engineering SchoolEng'g 51 (Eng'g Scl. 5) Pierce 302, 307Eng'g 72 Pierce 304Eng...