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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mind. A delicate problem of conflicting views of honor and duty is set forth in Mr. Carpenter's "The Greater Fear." The hero is forced by his fiancee to decide between apparent cowardice and, the author implies, certain brutality. Might there not have been a third way out, the reader is tempted to ask? Mr. Moyse discusses "the Episode Play" with greater sympathy than it usually finds at the hands of the critics; he insists that it is a genre distinct both from the ordinary drama and from the motion picture...
...article by Professor Alexander McAdie '85 about the work of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory is remarkable in that a thoroughly scientific man has been able to give an interesting account of the work in which he is engaged without bewildering the uninitiated reader with technical details. Besides an outline of the features of the progress in meteorology which has made possible the establishment of such a station as that on Blue Hill, Professor McAdie tells of the faithful work of Professor Rotch, founder of the observatory, whose name is now attached to the professorial chair occupied by Professor McAdie...
...Advocate appears cheerily in its thousandth-or-so-number, with its scanty editorials, like the inadequate short skirts of a growing girl; its verses, its tales and its one page of "solid article." Here the reader catches a whiff of the Ladies' Home Journal; there he finds a hint for those short pages of the Century where the verse is tucked in; but few suggestions of the Advocate in the days when it was only the Harvard Advocate...
...Wheeler of London, whom Sir Gilbert Murray, the noted translator, terms the most marvelous reader of Greek tragedy he has ever heard, will recite the Medea of Euripides at Parkway Hall, Larch road (near Fresh Pond), this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. Tickets at $1 may be secured at the door. Proceeds of the reading will be given to the French Relief Fund...
...Pegs," round or square, Mr. Davis hangs the fatalistic philosophy that animates his story. It is an apparently casual performance, behind which the reader detects a growing intensity and point...