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...Exquisite, like a figure on a fan, she showed with the swaying of her body, the fluttering of her tiny hands a hundred little emotions beyond the reach of human voice. Three years ago she came to Manhattan, a child with a pretty little voice pinched into an Oriental mould. Edythe Magee took her in hand, grafted an Occidental instrument there, one almost as captivating as the girl herself...
...ideas of President Mason of Chicago, and his comment upon the recent and more established innovations at Harvard only confirm the general belief that there is a tendency in American education which is rapidly changing into a purpose. Modelled after the German universities, American colleges are breaking from the mould--tending not to an imitation of the English or any other type, but borrowing what seems good and inventing what seems better. The present generation of undergraduates is, so to speak serving as a test case in many laboratories; that the experimenters in their general purpose seem agreed...
...student must be welcomed. That the problem of securing and of keeping men competent to undertake the mental salvation of undergraduates has not as yet been completely solved need hardly be stated. But the problem of finding men who can also undertake moral and spiritual salvation, who can mould character and standard's of ethical along with mental processes and habits of thinking, is one that need hardly concern the supporter of the tutorial system...
Cosmopolitan, Columbus Circle.--This is one chance in a life time to see highly stylized acting, in which lines are subordinated to voice and gesture, the tools with which the actors mould their characters. It is the stage equivalent of gothic statuary--gargoyles and everything--and is supreme of its kind...
...letter man two years ago who did not play last year because of an injury sustained in baseball. The members of last year's undefeated Freshman sextet and several stars who were ineligible last season swell the total of first-class material from which Coach Bigelow will mould the team to face a hard schedule...