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...Seniors and Freshmen will play both singles and doubles on Jarvis Field this afternoon, and players are requested to be on the field promptly at the time scheduled...
...Seniors will play the Sophomores in the second game of the interclass football series on Soldiers Field, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. This year each of the upperclass teams is to play the other twice, instead of once, as last year. The championship game will be played between the winner of the upperclass series and the Freshman team after the latter's game with the Yale freshmen...
...Browne and McKay were both on the side lines, though neither was dressed to play. Perkins was given a lay off on account of a slightly twisted knee, but will be in the game within...
Unusual interest attaches to the fall production of the Dramatic Club. To some extent this is due to the success of the performances last year, but to a far greater extent to the wise selection of the play to be produced. "The Scarecrow," by Percy MacKaye '97, whose "Jeanne d'Arc," "Sappho and Phaon," and "Mater," have been seen in New York and elsewhere, is undoubtedly Mr. MacKaye's most distinguished work. Though published in 1908, it has never been performed, and the Dramatic Club, therefore, has the distinction of presenting for the first time a play which is considered...
...Scarecrow" is based on Hawthorne's tale of "Feathertop," but is in no way a dramatization of it. "Starting with the same basic theme," Mr. MacKaye writes in his introduction to the published play, "I have sought to elaborate it, by my own treatment, to a different and more inclusive issue." He builds from Hawthorne's satire of coxcombry and charlatanism, "a tragedy of the ludicrous." In Hawthorne, "the scarecrow Feathertop is ridiculous, as the emblem of a superficial fop;" in Mr. MacKaye's play, "the scarecrow Ravensbane is pitiful, as the emblem of human bathos." The play...