Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Once among men, the Faun brings about all manner of changes by preaching the gospel of naturalism and free self-expression. In the second act he brings together two lovers who had been separated by a difference in social rank, and reawakens the idea of love in a converted suffragette by a genuinely Werther - thunderstorm - Klopstock method. Little happens in the third act except the completion of the two incipient romances and the final return of the Faun to the realm of nature...
...play is unusually well mounted--the thunderstorm and the sunrise deserve much credit. Mr. Faversham makes the Faun singularly attractive and entertaining and at the same time sensible and convincing. A less capable actor would make his speeches on free self-expression and unsatisfied affection seem anarchistic or worse. But Mr. Faversham's Faun is sane even while he is radical. Altogether the play is a delight to those who have a thinking interest in the theatre, and a credit to Mr. Faversham, Mr. Knoblauch and what has been called the "school of Harvard dramatists...
Landerholm, C., '14, Walcott, La Center, Wash., self-prepared...
...theoretical "whatought-to-be," the better must be the results. We believe that the more often the imperative call of examination is sounded, the more will be known in the end about the subject in hand. Tutors and outside coaches too often prey upon our own feeble-minded self-indulgence in matters of study, when such self-indulgence might be made impossible, at least during periods half a year long...
...forms of vice are the result of this mental disease. Although the ideal Christian condition without disease is naturally the doctor's enemy, as without it he would not have his work, yet that fact is the very glory of his profession, for although striving towards his own self-elimination, he is following the teaching of Christ. Such a profession not only calls for learning and medical skill but also for a heaven-given power obtained only through faith...