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...morning with a regular sensational news-story. These little irregularities are always a temptation for the would-be humorist, and the editors were tempted to use a red-ink screamer headline, with three-column photographs of the culprits. But the present case in by no means a matter for jest. The backwash of a world-wide crime wave has reached our peaceful community, and the list of victims is growing daily. Reports of petty and larger thefts come in steadily; swindling is not uncommon; suspicious characters are frequently seen about the dormitories...
Boston, affirms a time-worn jest, is not a place but a state of mind. If this be so,--and some foundation must exist for the adage,--the query next follows: what is this state of mind? Intellectual, many will reply; Puritanical, others may suggest; or unbalanced, the sarcastic might intimate. But judging a cross-section of the populace--as exhibited at the theatre, for example--one receives the impression that the true state is irresponsible levity...
James Russell Lowell in jest once referred to Harvard as "the Muses' factory"; in a recent article Professor Grant Showerman of the University of Wisconsin laments that the term is no longer a joke. The American university of today "turns out" several hundred graduates annually, each guaranteed at so many credits and properly tagged with a sheepskin label. State efficiency experts formulate results upon the basis of the unit-hour,--defined as one hour of instruction for one semester by one professor to one student oblivious of the fact that the only unit in intellectual life...
...scenic design at Reinhardt's Theatre. Since returning to America, he has designed scenery and costumes for the Russian Ballet, "Caliban," Claire Kummer's comedy "Good Gracious, Annabel," and "A Successful Calamity," with William Gillette. Mr. Jones designed the scenery for John Barrymore's last three successes: "Redemption." "The Jest," and "Richard the Third," and one of his latest works is that in the new Ben Ami play produced by Arthur Hopkins. Because they did not attain his ideal, Mr. Jones has destroyed most of his models of stage settings recently exhibited in New York, where he has also lectured...
...quartered), there is usually a wall, or house-side, whereon are posted the telephoned reports, two, three or more times a day. There is a bit of coping above to save, the paper from rain and before it gather the motley crew of Poilus. Nowadays with grin and jest--as if the war had just begun and were going well. But a short time ago it hurt to see the little dogged, glum crews that read the news of back, back-fighting, fighting--losing ground--French ground. Then the war seemed a very ancient interminable thing...