Word: says
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Eaton '00, who has established an honorable position for himself in the world of American letters, especially in the field of criticism, opens the number with a forceful plea that proper respect be paid the professions of theatrical manager, playwright, or actor. He is right. We may say what we will of the degeneracy of the stage. The theatre will remain where it is until educated, high-minded men, realizing its almost unlimited possibilities as a factor in the up-lifting of our ideals, have the courage to make its improvement their life work...
...whole number of the Monthly is well written, important in what it has to say, and, with the exception of Mr. Carb's rather degrading attempt at realism--which I have perhaps made too much of in taking seriously--is one of which the editors may well be proud...
...understand that the delegation of undergraduates to go to Northfield to the summer students conference is now being made up in the College, and I should be grateful, if, in the light of my own undergraduate attitude towards Northfield, you would permit me to say a word concerning it. As a student I thought of Northfield as an ultra-pious place, which promoted an abnormally emotional and provincial religious life. I exaggerated the conservatism of its theology and minimized the sincerity and wholesomeness of its spirit. After graduating I declined to go to Northfield as a speaker until last year...
...straw vote recently held at Yale to determine the relative desirability of the football "Y", membership on the two leading papers, and a Phi Beta Kappa key, the last named was overwhelmingly first. It is safe to say that the same result would not have been reached at Harvard. We believe that there is not the competition here that there should be for membership in the single society which bases its elections primarily on excellence in scholarship. Certainly it is true that the competition at New Haven is far keener and that at Yale the Phi Beta Kappa holds...
...vacation. But at Easter, owing to the rule now in force, such men are compelled to remain through all lectures on Saturday and, consequently, can not reach home until Sunday evening or later, thus losing at least a whole day. On the surface, the College Office appears inconsistent, to say the least...