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...rapping since last September, and it still continues unavailingly to rap its knuckles raw as far as most first year men are concerned. A certain measure of sympathy is due the men who finds himself in a House other than his choice, but the Freshman who, with one blind stab, successfully chooses his upperclass residence and then finds it not at all to his liking deserves little commiseration. An occasional meal in each of the seven Houses is one of the best aids to a rational and lasting selection...
...full cast had gathered in the Opera House to rehearse for the 40th time the third act of Richard Hageman's Caponsacchi, scheduled for its U. S. première this week. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett was singing the role of murderous Count Guido who stabs to death his wife and her parents. As he pretended to kill old Pietro, he turned his knife aside in traditional opera style, accidentally slashed Basso Joseph Sterzini between the thumb and forefinger. Sterzini pooh-poohed his wound, wanted to finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied...
...Chamber's most important act, the new Bank of France set-up was its sharpest stab of lèse majeste against the entrenched French ruling class. Abolished henceforth are the Regents elected by the 200 biggest stockholders representing the so-called "200 Families." Instead, various branches of the Government appoint 16 Regents, the savings banks another, the Bank's employes "secretly elect" still another and two Regents are chosen by all the Bank's 40,000 stockholders, each having one vote, regardless of his holdings...
...anti-Oriental propaganda, it is so completely alien to our more prosaic conceptions of heroism, that the Occidental spectator remains rather impassive to the heart-rending close, in which the naval commander who sold his wife for the secrets of the British rule of the waves is made to stab himself most ceremoniously and mortally in spite of his glorious victory. If it comes to frank appraisal, it must be admitted that all this extravagant melodrama falls a little flat...
...Mencken. Such an attempt at ridicule as Princeton's may be too obvious to call forth more than a tolerantly amused laugh from old and young alike; still it will attract attention, and that is probably all its progenitors hoped to achieve. The splendid points of the program, the stab at the Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at the sometime patriots who in return for a sacrifice to their country now demand a neutralizing and unnecessary sacrifice, these are lost in the superficial hilarity of the thoughtless abandon of youth...