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...Freshman today is far easier than that of a Freshman of two centuries ago, judging from the "College Customs" which form part of the collection. No longer (in Harvard at least) is the Senior the same awful figure that he was in the early seventeen hundreds. A list of rules to be observed by Freshmen, drawn up by Richard Waldron of the class of 1738, shows the veneration that they were compelled to bear towards their superiors...
...kept from choosing at random seventeen courses out of the three hundred or more offered at Harvard is to be protected against the very real danger of having a Freshman's knowledge about many things but not a Senior's knowledge about anything. That is so generally realized that there is little need to argue the advantages of having at least one third of one's courses constitute a kind of picture, the details of which lend meaning to each other and the whole of which is somehow or other much greater than the mere sum of the courses...
...live wire of the production is Julius H. Marx. His aura is that of the Five Points, and his language is the patois of the unwashed, but he makes things go with a bang; and a refined Boston audience laughed with him continuously for two hours and seventeen minutes. Abiy assisted by his partners, he is the life of the party, even when playing opposite Miss Carlotta Miles' un-conecious rendition of La Gioconda...
...zeal for safe-guarding the rights of property, the American Legal Association surely intends to work for the restoration of alien property confiscated in wartime. In nineteen seventeen the state department asserted that it "would not take advantage of a state of war to take possession of property to which international understandings and the recognized law of the land can give it no just claim or title". Simultaneously, several million dollars' worth of property belonging to alien enemies was seized and has since remained in governmental hands...
Blanche Bates offered her usual determined and consciously complete performance. Elliott Cabot who, with Robert Benchley, is the most promising of the younger Harvard actors, made a keen impression on the critics. Quite the best of the troupe was Ruth Gordon (Lola Pratt in Seventeen). She wandered in occasionally as the little girl from up the street and quite pulled the play from the grasp of the Partridge family...