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Essays must not exceed 5000 words (a length of 3000 words is suggested as desirable) and must be written, preferably in typewriting, on one side only of plain paper of ordinary size (8 x 10 1-2 inches). Manuscripts not easily legible will not be considered...
Louis Hopewell Bauer, of Jamaica Plain. Subject: "Medicine and the Social Service...
...studied, as his stories always are, this one is a good example of the lack the average reader feels in them. One never feels he understands the people; one does not feel sure they understand each other. The author has so refined them that they are no longer the plain human sort one knows. Besides, they so seldom do anything worth while. They talk, not always brilliantly, and fade away somehow in whispers and twilight. They make one long for blood and lust even to melodrama...
Those who think Mr. Thomas Lawson's political advertisements better reading than the Monthly ought to look at Mr. C. V. Wright's essay, "A Lost Art". He champions the old Gregorian music like a Sir Kay; to him all church choirs not consecrated to the old plain chant are "merely formed for the use of tenors and fat women." Wagner, he says, "dissatisfied with the figure of the historic Christ, transformed him into a German prig with a nasty-minded distrust of feminity". That's Parsifal! There's plenty of go in the Monthly still. Mr. Pichel...
...Executive Committee of the Student Council held last evening the following nominating committee was appointed: chairman, A. J. Lowrey '13, of Honolulu, Hawaii; A. M., Goodale '13, of Cambridge, R. B. Batchelder '13, of Salem; H. J. Smith '13, of Denver, Col.; P. L. Wendell '13, of Jamaica Plain; H. R. Hitchcock, Jr., '14, of Pukoo, Molokai, Hawaii; and L. H. Mills '14, of Portland...