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...prevent any complete success. Under existing conditions, which are unlikely to change very rapidly, the membership is, speaking generally, limited to those who belong to no other club. There is little to be gained by trying to force the Union down an unwilling throat; it is too likely to react unfavorably on the agent...
...passing on the hardship, in one form or another, to the passengers for whom it is incurred. A law which teaches ships to race for the first of the month, and then assesses fines of $100,000 or more for an error of 15 seconds in navigation, will doubtless react to the hardship of immigrants, no matter how administered...
...younger generation. Mr. Tarkington would have made fun of his people. You would have been laughing at them from curtain to curtain. Not so, Mr. Davis. He has observed life well. He writes of it truly. Like all playwrights, Mr. Davis never quite knows just how his public will react to a play. Will they be conscious of the fundamental tragedy of Home Fires or will they, as in Icebound, find more of the comic than the tragic and go away feeling warmly amused ? It is hard to tell. Personally, I have seldom laughed so hard in any theatre...
...disputation. Referring to the records of this column we discover that during the last three years a similar request has come from Widener at exactly this time of year. That would lead us to assume that there is something in the nature of the student which makes him react to the depressing influence of impending examinations by exercising his right to fellowship in the Reading Room...
...should be. His experiences are vivid enough; the author has a faculty for imagining situations. But, as we have said before, the story seems at least partially auto-biographical. The reader feels Mr. Benet is writing more or less about himself and trying to picture how he would react to certain situations; that is, about a kind of ideal himself with whom he is not fully acquainted--or at least whom he is reticent about letting anyone but himself know intimately. The irony, too, which he attempts to put into the later parts of the book, is anything but convincing...