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There is a decidedly "reminiscent" flavor to the "guest" contributions. Reunion dinners invariably induce a great deal of group sentimentality. This distinctive note is emphasized at the very outset by the undergraduate who designed the effective cover. (He is evidently close enough to graduation to feel premonitory twinges of graduate loyalty.) We can fairly see the Cambridge-longing in the mind of the solid citizen, who still must trail clouds of academic glory behind him, though his infant ignore the faithful geese, and cast the poppet upon the daisypied field...
...outset we wish to make it plain that by refusing to participate in war we do not pledge ourselves to the position of absolute non-resistance. Our stand is simply that we do not believe in the kind of force used in modern warfare...
Four acts and an epilogue, subdivided into seven scenes, are required for the author's development of Joan from country maid to Saint. At the outset she appears at Vaucouleurs, where with a few brief sentences she persuades the testy Robert de Baudricourt to grant her soldiers and a horse to carry her to the Dauphin closeted at Chinon. Her recognition of the latter in the crowded throne room, his conversion to her standard follow. Shaw then revels in an arrant trumpery when he changes before your eyes the course of a contrary wind?the Maid's "miracle" on joining...
Polly Pearl (Mary Nash), tangles herself in trouble at the outset by marrying the idle offspring of the recent rich. Her claim to cosmic recognition at the time was moderate success as a soubrette in a second class London music hall. She is careless of Cockney accent but scrupulous of moral tone. Amid the exotic realities of Monte Carlo, her male acquisition develops desperate ennui and she departs in dis- consolate defiance...
Said Dr. Kammerer in a press statement : "I am quite prepared to face the criticisms of the American biologists. Indeed, it may be recalled, I said at the outset that I expected the 'hair of some American biologists would stand on end at the conclusions I had drawn...