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...decree forcing Thuringian school children to pray every morning for abolition of the Young Plan and the Treaty of Versailles-two Fascist platform planks. That Dr. Frick was forced out last week marked a Hitler defeat, but a defeat which should remove from public notice a Fascist so rabid and reckless as to be the worst advertisement his party...
...Luke, everything is exactly the same. The Fabers have the same position in Rome as in Rivertown, the same conservative point of view, the same worries and troubles with labor agitators. As in real life, Lucius finds the issue confused for him by falling in love with Marcia a rabid Red. When she is killed in his arms the shock brings him back to Rivertown again, and the first thing he learns is that the real Marcia has really been killed. Then he is in a chaos. Still violently opposed to the Reds, he begins to doubt the divine right...
Judging, purely from the present situation, it would seem wise to consider the University as superior to the houses until the houses can be distinctive without being provincial. It is justifiable to utter a faint "Cave" against either the rabid pursuit of originality or the passive acceptance...
When a dog starts to run wildly, most people at once assume that he is rabid. But more likely he has running fits, a canine disease harmless to humans. Last year The Sportsman (monthly) asked for money to pay a scientist to find out why dogs have such fits. Many a dog lover responded generously. Dr. L. Raymond Morrison of Harvard Medical School was engaged to do the work. Because at the end of the year's research the investigation is not completed, The Sportsman is making another appeal this month for $4,000 to continue Dr. Morrison...
...time mediocrity." His plaint that all plays not professionally produced, or even all old plays not professionally revived are mediocre or worse is obviously groundless. The professional theatre is dependent, to a much larger extent than the Dramatic Club, on its box-office. And even the most rabid admirer of the general theatre-going public will hardly credit it with the same level of intelligence as a Harvard audience. The result of this state of affairs is that there are many plays which would not pass the pragmatic test of filling a New York theatre with Broadway Babbits...