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...half a century ago. What could be more expressive of the emotions of millions of people in the United States today than his famous passage: "The war was ended. I might walk townward without that aching dread of bulletins that had darkened the July sunshine and twice made the scarlet leaves of October seemed stained with blood...
Lieutenant Arthur B. Warren '15 died in France last week from scarlet fever contracted during service in the front line trenches, according to word received from Washington. Last spring Lieutenant Warren received the degree of A.M. at the University and after training in the R. O. T. C., was commissioned a second lieutenant at the first Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg...
...Richmond '18, who left the University in the later part of February to report at Miami, Fla., for training in the Aviation Section of the Signal Officer' Reserve Corps has a light case of scarlet fever. The other four members of the University, Hamilton Coolidge '19, F. H. Harvey '18, John Mitchell '18 and Herbert Pulitzer '19 are in quarantine and are confined to the house which they have rented there. They enlisted at Key West and then went to Miami for training. It was impossible to get any actual flying during the first ten days after they got there...
...acting is all that could possibly be desired. Miss Henrietta Crossman as the Mayoress does what is really a wonderful piece of work. In many respects the Mayoress is the most subtle feat of characterization Mr. Shaw has accomplished. Mr. Lumsden Hare, as the scarlet general, succeeds in conveying just the right degree of appalling sentimentality characteristic of soldiers. Mr. Charles Cherry, as one of the slightly attractive super-cads, Mr. Shaw is so fond of depicting, achieves the best piece of characterization we have ever seen from him. Mr. Edwin Cushman, as the High Church curate, is appropriately preposterous...
...miracle, to suppose that there must be pullies and cardboard is to be really suspicious and of small soul. A modern scientific mind noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their backgrounds. He felt a desire to warn the Cardinal, sitting rich in his scarlet and apparently on the very top of a tower, that he was in imminent peril of being blown off like a bird's nest into the village and the hills beneath. He felt a need of lending hat and coat to "My Uncle Daniel and His Family," who stand quietly...