Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Scout Leader or the Coach of an Uplift Nine is after all the noblest ambition of Young American Manhood. Mr. Murdock's story is shorter, and laid right here in Cambridge--Memorial clock strikes nine, and the streets are covered with slush, and all that sort of thing--but it is still further away from life as most of us know it. There is a touch of the melodramatic in its treatment of Harvard existence which discourages those of us who have been brought up in the tradition that college men should write college stories. There are so few Flandraus...
...other hand, both prose and verse in this number are unusual and good. Perhaps the best thing in the issue is Mr. McCombs' review of one of those militaristic books which flood the shelves just now. In the form of a book-notice and in remarkably few words, the writer constructs a very neat case against the war maniacs. There is a certain cold charm in the temperance and lucidity of his style--a charm which we encounter frequently in the best work of the so-called "Pacifist" school, and which is in happy contrast...
...most auspicious moment, as all good heroes should. His sister is in the clutches of an unscrupulous Englishman who makes love indiscriminately to her and her companion, Abbey Sexton. John is a business man but a human one. He sees his opportunity, grasps it, and of course the whole thing turns out all right in the end. The Englishman is "halfway to Canada" by the time John wins his old sweetheart back again...
...play, "Fixing Sister" is not a great contribution to the drama. It is frankly and wholly Mr. Hodge throughout. But there are many clever lines, the scenery is remarkably realistic, and the fact that Mr. Hodge is the most notable thing about is hardly to be wondered at. Certainly the first act drags until he appears,, but thereafter it is plain sailing, steadily working up to the last act, which is by far the best of the four...
...scholars, 30 from public schools, 35 from private; a total of 43 public and 45 private. Thus it appears that the public schools of the country, in their preparation of the boys whose work in College is both done and ranked without reference to tangible rewards, are doing the thing quite as well as the private schools which devote themselves primarily to a scheme of secondary education leading straight to the college doors. Much has been said about the need of a bridge between the college and the public schools. It is now just about as long and broad...