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Professor H. J. Hughes has been assigned by President Lowell to confer with the municipal water board of Cambridge. This appointment was made in accordance with Mayor Brooks's request for an expert to consult with the water board. Professor Hughes is assistant professor of civil engineering and conducts the engineering camp at Squam Lake each summer...
...Mayor Brooks expressed his hearty approval of the plan of appointment and said that he had asked for an expert on account of the projected further development of the city's water works...
...Mayor Fitzgerald's recent suppression of "The Easiest Way" brought into prominence the mayor's power of censorship. Leaving out of consideration the wisdom of this particular prohibition, there can be no doubt that there have appeared, unchallenged, numerous dramatic productions calculated to feed on human weaknesses. Such plays as the "Follies" which excite the baser passions of mankind by their sensuous dances and flippant jests in regard to breaches of the Seventh Commandment and to drunkenness have been allowed to vulgarize and debase their audiences...
...should use the weight of its influence to call attention to and protest against such vicious performances. The University has the best organized and most effective dramatic department in the country. The CRIMSON believes that a plan could be adopted whereby this department might report semi-officially to the mayor in case a play is found morally objectionable. Such recommendations would at least have to be considered, and would probably be of great service to the mayor in the exercise of his difficult and perplexing power of stage censorship...
...cast is as follows: Spencer, F. M. Eliot 1G. Carrol, H. W. Miller '12 Fawcett, J. C. Janney '11 Captain Goodlack, T. S. Kenyon '11 Roughman, O. W. Haussermann '12 Clem, C. B. Randall '12 First Captain, R. D. Whittemore '13 Second Captain, P. H. Keays '13 Mayor of Foy, P. J. Stearns '13 An Alderman, F. C. Rogerson '13 Mullisheg, King of Fez, P. Snedeker 1L. Bashaw Alcade, J. B. Munn '12 Bashaw Joffer, M. C. Allen '11 A Spanish Captain, P. H. Keays '13 An English Merchant, A. J. Kelly '12 A French Merchant, R. D. Whittemore...