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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Dennison, minister of the Central Church, Boston, will speak at the weekly meeting of the Christian Association in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. His subject will be "The Power of Right Thinking." All members of the University are cordially invited to be present...
...things that embarrass us in reading Shaw: first, whether he is to be taken seriously or not, and secondly, the way in which he shocks us morally. The first thing to be remembered is that he is a socialist and looks for no good results from our present social organization. He is annoyed to see people who are "comfortable" morally, because they have established a new public school, when they ought to be uncomfortable; and he tries to make them uncomfortable by his writings. He is really one of the most serious of men; but he uses his great power...
Some of his plays criticise the present social order and some of the socialists of today. Among the former is one that speaks of war as a science of attacking a weaker opponent and getting out of the way of a stronger. In "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" he shows that an apparently helpless and unskilled woman is stronger in an emergency than the power of the sword. "Mrs. Warren's Profession," though known as "immorality dramatized," is really an enquiry into the self-complacency of modern society. "Candida" is a criticism of a modern socialist clergyman who is a good...
...Shaw says that further progress under present conditions is impossible; we must educate men to cope with the problem of a new social organization...
...date for the Junior dance which will be held in the Union, has been set for Thursday, February 18, the first Thursday after the mid-years. To avoid confusion in regard to tickets and boxes all Juniors, expecting to attend the dance, who are not at present members of the Union, are advised to join at once. Membership may still be charged on the next term-bill...