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Presently Laurence Stallings' War play, Glory, will be seen on Broadway. It, too, will be sardonic, perhaps even more so than the novel; but if it possesses the same driving quality of passionate understanding that is manifest in Plumes, it should prove to be a drama worth seeing...
...been sadly over-rated, and that we have, as a nation, been taught facts rather than the more vital Life. Untold opportunities, have been thrown away in wasted logical energy although some few might be skeptical enough to assert that any sort of logic has long ceased to manifest itself in our schools. But skepticism will vanish before the alluring and signicant program laid out, and our children will grow to maturity with the blessing of knowing how to live life as it should be lived...
...competition is very modern. All through the Middle Ages the government of nation, church, and guild prohibited as far as possible all tendencies toward unregulated competition, and only in the first hectic days of the Industrial Revolution was it allowed full sway. Even before its full evils could become manifest it was checked by the factory and labor legislation of the early nineteenth century. When Mr. Mackay declares that "we must change our present tendencies and get back to the public policies of our fathers" he runs the danger of advocating what he proposes to abolish...
...generous critic, however, will see beneath the surface and discover that the Yale Seniors were actuated merely by that general restlessness which is manifest in every eastern university. At Princeton the impatience against tradition has reached such a height that not only the Seniors, but the Juniors and Sophomores have discarded regular clothes and are strolling about the campus in "beer suits" which are best described as pajamas made of canvas. And at Cambridge even John Harvard has shifted ground. The hostility toward study and the golden key is, therefore, probably not the only explanation for Yale's athletic prowess...
...excellent. The spirit of Rolland pervades the book, as does the spirit of Gandhi--indeed the two are often at one. He ends his summary of Gandhi's influence with these prophetic words: "One thing is certain, either Gandhi's spirit will triumph, or it will manifest itself again as were manifested, centuries before, the Messiah and Buddha; till there finally in manifested, in a mortal half-god, the perfect incarnation of principle of life which will lead a new humanity on to a new path...