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Tonight at Agassiz House at 8 o'clock the 47 Workshop will present as its first play of the year "Slug" by Henry Fiske Carlton. This is a three-act play of hobo life in the Northwest which was written in 47a last year, receiving honorable mention in the Belmont Prize competition. A second performance, restricted to members of the 47 Workshop and those on its guest list, will be held at the same place tomorrow night...
...Workshop will present its first play of the year tomorrow night at Agassiz House at 8 o'clock. It has chosen for its opening production "Slug" by Henry Fisk-Carlton, a three act play of hobo life in the Northwest. It was written last year in 47a and received honorable mention in the Belmont Prize competition...
...date of the first play to be given this year by the 47 Workshop has been postponed to Wednesday and Thursday, November 1 and 2. As previously announced the play was written by Henry Fisk Carlton, and is called "Slug", a play of hobo life...
...question is being discussed and the answer sought for every day in the papers by presidents, prelates, and the principals of high schools. Between them they have succeeded in excluding from college everybody theoretically except the professional hobo. He has none of those objectionable qualities of ancestors, wealth, social standing, or ambition. Moreover, he hails from rolling stock and has a decided preference for aristocracy, whether it be the aristocracy of brains or the aristocracy of the rough and ready. This last named qualification insures a dogged determination in, as well as an easy adaptability to, the academic life...
...Peters of Harvard or Peters of the slums who took the compulsory shower bath and gave his clothes over for fumigation as No. 69? Did not the blatant Curley, rejected as Mayor, assail Peters as the candidate of "Harvard College and the slums"? If Curley ever slept at a hobo lodging house and chopped wood for his breakfast, it is not of common report. Peters is different, more of a doer than a talker, a getter of information at first hand. Not soon will his old friends stop chaffing him about his adventure to see for himself how the "down...