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Evangeline became an American citizen and, during the War, an American heroine. The London dominance of brother Bramwell began sometime after to pinch. Rumors that General Bramwell would oust Commander Evangeline have been almost annual. The latest item of debate is an interpretation of a London rule which, some say, would prohibit Army officers from joining such "secret" societies as the Elks or Masons. Interviewed on the S. S. Homeric, General Booth declared there was no such rule. The trouble, it appears, lies deeper...
Professor Muzzey is a historian of note. His latest work is the "United States since the Civil War," in which he shows the need of treating our social problems in the spirit of Ethical Philosophy...
...Boston Stock Company is reviving this week the latest, and probably the best, of the murder plays which kept the children awake so many nights last winter. "Whispering Wires" is less gruesome, more natural, and far more structurally perfect than its predecessors. We feel also that the author shows admirable rstraint in keeping his finger off the electric light switch. There is something gruesome about a dark stage, and frankly we don't like it. It makes us feel as if the man who was with that girl we thought we knew had taken out his penknife. Fortunately...
...that is given only to geniuses. Which is to say that there are a great many people, and the Playgoer is one of them, who would prefer a play that tastes like day before yesterday's milk, provided De Wolf Hopper is in it, to the latest "Hit from Broadway". But it is speaking disrespectfully of things venerable to put "Wang" in such a class. In spite of its one-cylinder action its songs are often charming. And he would be a critical man who would not consider an evening well spent just to hear Hopper sing...
When interviewed yesterday about Professor Whitehead, the University's latest acquisition in the Philosophy department, Dr. H. M. Scheffer said that Professor Whitehead was among the first two or three philosophers alive today. "What makes him a great philosopher" said Dr. Scheffer," is that he, with Bertrand Russell, is the foremost representative of the great English empirical tradition of Locke, Benkley, Mill, and Hume, and secondly that he is keenly aware of the philosophical limitations of empiricism...