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...been reported to me as one of the hundred or more first-year men who saw fit to drop their work last Saturday by staying away from one of the most difficult courses in the School. Until recently such things have never happened in the history of the School. Hitherto, substantially everyone was on hand at 12 o'clock on the day of the Yale game...
...Jewett, in his interpretation of Sergius, has realized the effects of the lines to their greatest extent. He bellows and boasts as a Major in the army of Bullgarial; and his poses, hitherto obnoxious, become enjoyable. I was almost induced to go the grave of John the Baptist and apologize for not understanding that he, too, was a braggart. Mr. Jewett forgot that he was the great Shakesperian actor, and became an understanding Shavion interpreter...
...than a political hangover which reminds Republicans how bad they were the ( night before. The Klanish horde of 400,000 in 1923 and 1924 has now dwindled to some 17,000 faithful morons. The principal result of the investigations seems to have been to crystallize resentment against Senator Watson, hitherto a Republican power and presidential possibility. He is described by Frank R. Kent, able correspondent of the Democratic Baltimore Sun, in no mild language...
There will be a new solo danseuse?Ruth Page, of Indianapolis, member once of Anna Pavlowa's company, and hitherto notable for her dancing in John Alden Carpenter's Birthday of the Infanta with the Chicago Opera; most important, a new conductor to strengthen further the Italian wing ?Vincenzo Bellezza, Roman, to make his Metropolitan debut with The Jewels of the Madonna during the season's first week...
...glass manufacturers. The Corning Glass Works (Corning, N. Y.), family company of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Alanson B. Houghton, swiftly called attention (see LETTERS) to its recent perfection of a glass, soon to be produced commercially, which transmits 86% of sunlight's ultraviolet content. Hitherto, 35% was the highest transmission coefficient of commercial glasses...