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...whole ceremony that antagonized many Lowell House members and gave every indication that so unnatural a growth would have difficulty flourishing at Harvard. The long wait before the students were admitted to the dining hall and the failure of the electricity were undoubtedly unforeseen mishaps which will not reoccur. Nevertheless there still remained the spectacle of a group of performers, making a stage entrance in their dinner jackets, eating, it seemed, almost as a lesson in manners to the herd seated down in the pit, and then making an exit which gave the signal to the 250-odd undergraduates that...
...murkiness. It was that after such a world-involving calamity lasting peace must ensue. When the war ended, statesmen enthusiastically took up their task making certain that peace. But politics and petty jealousy overcame their ardor until there could be no absolute surety that such a catastrophe might not reoccur...
...atmosphere. The actors just struggle through the afternoon of commencement day at Columbia, and in spite of the many unnatural lines they manager to give the gallery a great deal of amusement. After the scene shifts to a business office in the Woolworth Building, the blemishes in the dialogue reoccur only when the principals make artificial speeches about having been "old pals" in the good old college days. The improbabilities of a business farce do not matter if they are funny, and after the first act "We've Got to Have Money" is funny enough to make the most gloomy...
...covered by patrols. When the submarines succeed in such a surprise attack we must be philosophical and not get panicky. In the Spanish War people gave up their homes on the seashore and trooped inland for fear of Cevera's fleet. This is just what the Kaiser wishes to reoccur. He has shelled Paris for the moral effect and he is sending over submarines for the same reason...