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...Harvard Dramatic Club announces a series of lectures to be given this winter by men prominent in the dramatic profession. The subject of the course will be drama in general. Mr. Percy MacKaye '97, author of "The Scarecrow," will deliver the first in this series in Emerson Hall, the third week in December...
Chief objection to all this was stated by Dr. John R. Crosby in the Churchman. His main point: that unless the Episcopal Church sets up a true archbishopric it erects "a bedizened scarecrow that will be the laughing stock of every church in Christendom." And a true archbishop would wield powers which many a U. S. bishop would be loath to give...
Those in launches or on the train saw Cornell and Washington away first: watched California's scarecrow stroke Dick Burnley, make his first challenge at the mile; noticed the way Navy at the halfway mark held on behind California and Washington. At the railroad bridge, 1 mile from the finish, California began to challenge in earnest; Washington's stroke Ed Argersinger, sent his beat up and began to watch California whittle down his half length lead by inches...
...fancy advertisement for the excitements of metropolitan nightlife. The Ninth Guest is civilized scarecrow drama, handsome, improbable and exciting. Worst shot: a butler fumbling with a block of ice to provide comic relief...
...youth of 19, on his way to Wasatch College in Salt Lake City. Though college has always been his dream of escape from the poverty-ridden nightmare of farm life. Vridar is very homesick. At first college seems wonderful, in spite of the grimy furnace room he inhabits, the scarecrow clothes he has to wear, the scanty food and few friends. Gradually his high idealism is undermined and he begins to see college as a picture of an unjust and meaningless world outside. "Forenoon" McClintock, a rapscallion fellow-roomer in Vridar's boarding house, helps to complete his disillusioning...