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Since great things were expected of this strange, fanciful drama of olden Bagdad by James Elroy Flecker, the critics foamed. It has been around in printed form for some little time, several editions of it. There is within it an undeniable quality of beauty which it seemed that no stage production could stifle; but if Hassan was not stifled by the present production, at least it was made to gasp audibly...
...more than the content which attracts the students. Just so did the serious-minded youths in olden days gather at the feet of the sages to harked to their words, whether they talked of mathematics or philosophy or medicine. For whatever they said was worth considering. The caption, English Composition, in the Elective Pamphlet fails completely to describe English 12. What of the "evenings" which form an integral part of the course? What of the personal conferences in which the fearful author is forced to see himself in the Mirror of Truth? And what of the wit and humor...
Rood Screens. A reminder of pre-Reformation days was discovered in rebuilding Noyon Cathedral. The shell scarred floors were removed recently, revealing the foundations of an ancient jubé, or rood screen. In olden days the jubé was a very heavy wall separating the chancel from the choir and nave, and from a tribune on top of this wall a cleric read the Gospel and Epistle. The rood screens of today serve to ornament the church rather than to separate the clergy from the laity...
...recalled the olden times when Turkish women went to war side by side with their husbands. "At the very dawn of Islamism there were women savants, women of letters, women orators and women who opened schools, lectured, and took a great part in public life. The Moslem religion orders women to educate themselves in the same degree...
...Iowa, rises up Saturday and takes the edge off the Army victory by thrashing the "Jayhawk" again. Of a certainly the football capital of these United States is a wandering one. It is no longer nailed down east of the Alleghenies, as it used to be in the comfortable olden time, 'when a half-dozen big Eastern teams held the spotlight year after year and ruled the Gridiron Empire unchallenged. However, it still is the ambition of every good team in the country to beat Yale or Harvard or Princeton and the others of the great teams whose shadow once...