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...play ever put on a stage by the Circolo Italiano, will be presented in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The play is a three-act comedy by Giuseppe Giacosa, one of the best-known Italian dramatists of the day. The title of the comedy is a proverb, which means that he who leaves the old for the new knows what he leaves behind and does not know what he is to find...
...Circolo Itallano for the first time in his history will give a play, which will be presented in Brattle Hall on May 16 at 8 o'clock. The piece selected is a thre-act comedy by Griseppe Giacosa, the title of which is in the form of a proverb, "Chi Lascia la Via Vecchia perla Nnova say quell the Lascia e non sequel the Trova," which means what he who leaves the old for the new knows that he leaves behind and does not know that he is to find...
...irrationality of war must be obvious even to the militarist. Its decisions are inherently unjust or only occasionally and accidentally just. Might, despite the proverb, is not right. The traditional slogan, "In time of peace prepare for war" is a relic of mediaeval days of incessant warfare, and has no meaning today. There is no surer way to make other nations distrust us than to distrust them. Let us trust and be trusted...
...these Yale has won twenty-three and Harvard four. Since 1889, when Harvard withdrew from the Intercollegiate Association, Yale has won thirteen times and Harvard four. These figures are too divergent to be accounted for by any theory of accident, though 'Yale luck' has passed into a proverb. No; it is a superficial view of the case which fails to see that underlying this long succession of victories there are significant facts concerning the methods and coaching of these Yale players who could take thirteen out of seventeen victories. It is with these facts that we are wholly concerned...
...France, as if it were France itself. But perhaps it is well that Americans should know that there is another France--provincial France--not sufficiently appreciated and yet worthy of mature study. If Paris is the head of France then the provinces are the heart, and hence the proverb that 'Frances has a bad head, but a good heart...