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...that fundamentally the one adequate solvent of her difficulties is a Christianity freed of sectarianism, of outworn theologies, and of ecclesiastical machinery; a Christianity of the spirit, committed everlastingly to belief in the essential brotherhood of man, and to the firm conviction that the Christian principles of the dignity of the individual and of the worth of service, are the most practical things in the world
...pretty likely to be unhappy. Treat him with large doses of Samuel Butler and other anti-Victoreans of the "naughty nineties" and he is quite as likely to convince himself of "The Meaninglessness of Life". A belief in The Meaninglessness of Life is helpful in clearing the mind of outworn traditions but when it becomes the solo guide of life the chances are that it will be an easy excuse for not striving against Inertia and for self indulgence...
...beginning of the world--mistaken identities--Goldsmith's old story of the heiress who wins, as a barmaid, the love of a youth too bashful to court her in her proper surroundings possesses a curious perennial freshness. Granted that some of the stage devices seem a bit clumsy and outworn to the present generation of theatre-goers, the underlying humor of the play has as wide an appeal today as it did in the reign of George the Second. It is this fact, together with its characterization and wittiness of line, which has kept "She Stoops to Conquer...
Despite the connotation of the title, the play has absolutely nothing to do with the eighteenth amendment, and jokes on the already outworn subject of prohibition have been strictly barred...
...correspondent whose communication is published in an adjacent column of this morning's CRIMSON is not alone in his decrial of the new policy of the Harvard Glee Club. When Dr. Davison and his followers decided last autumn that "Australia" and "Gridiron King" had outworn their welcome as constant features on the concert programs, the instant accusation was raised. "Yes, the Glee Club has turned high-brow. They won't sing anything but classical stuff." Graduates became worried about the fate of a chorus from Cambridge that did not sing Fair Harvard upon every possible occasion, and that had fallen...