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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Speakers' Club printed in another column. This communication seems to refute absolutely the several criticisms made against the Club in the communication in yesterday's issue of the CRIMSON, and the facts presented show that the criticisms made were unjust and censurable, and untrue as regards some statements made. Like all other undergraduate organizations the Speakers' Club has its faults, but in the main it is doing a splendid and much-needed work. It is not merely an organization of prominent debaters and speakers in the College, but one whose membership, although necessarily limited in number by natural conditions...
...private school graduates; in sharp contrast, have never gone through any sifting process. Of course they have been subject to examinations like all schoolboys everywhere; but in their case no process of gradual selection has been at work to produce the intellectually fit. The boys go to school at 12 or 14 years of age because their parents want them to and can afford to send them; and for like reasons 90 per cent of the same boys go to college...
...Like everything with which Major Higginson, to whom the book is dedicated, is connected, the album is a decided credit to the community as well as to those more directly concerned. A gentleman of sounder business judgment, of more unswerving integrity, of more unfailing kindliness, and of greater generosity than Boston's first citizen and Harvard's almost unequalled benefactor would be extremely difficult to find. In honoring such a type of man, 1912 do honor to themselves...
Those who think Mr. Thomas Lawson's political advertisements better reading than the Monthly ought to look at Mr. C. V. Wright's essay, "A Lost Art". He champions the old Gregorian music like a Sir Kay; to him all church choirs not consecrated to the old plain chant are "merely formed for the use of tenors and fat women." Wagner, he says, "dissatisfied with the figure of the historic Christ, transformed him into a German prig with a nasty-minded distrust of feminity". That's Parsifal! There's plenty of go in the Monthly still. Mr. Pichel...
...fiction of this number is interesting, Mr. M. Britten's "Poetastors", although clever, is not perfectly successful: it is a tale of the mismating of two half-baked literary souls, and the diction is rich with expressions like "she glimpsed his profile." Mr. Seldes' "The Other Crucified" is a too daring conception skillfully carried out except at the climax, where naturally it must be inadequate. "The Necklace of Death," by Mr. Skinner, is a good Indian yarn by one who knows the Indians; yet his properties get him into trouble in the middle of the narrative. The verse shows...