Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Apropos of various books and magazine articles on undergraduate life in general and society life in particular, we read with much interest an editorial in the current Alumni Bulletin. Quoting an undergraduate publication, it says that "Probably the most significant thing to be said about clubs at Harvard is that they are unimportant...
...Harvard men the picture of the Union grouped by the side of the Bones house may have generated a strain of humor totally unintended by the energetic New York editor. But, truly, what picture should represent Harvard as its "most influential club?" The fact is there is no such thing here...
...bill closed with "The Foundlings," adapted by Miss Hawley from a magazine story. This is a piffling, inconsequential thing, lacking any witty lines, yet it may amuse some people. It is Somerset Maugham minus the epigrams. Those who played it seemed to be having a good time, notably Miss Munroe and Mr. Pichel. The staging of all four pieces was admirable...
...order to quiet his suspicions of the innkeeper. Whereupon Scottish Law declared Truth married to both men. But Truth really loved a third party, whose identity it would be a shame to divulge before you actually get to the fourth act, for the plot is the only interesting thing about the play. The actors, with the exception of Mr. Kemble, certainly do not make the characters vivid...
...CRIMSON publishes the facts in this case for two reasons: first, to let those who may have heard of the matter know that Harvard undergraduates do not stand for this sort of thing. (Had not due punishment already been administered, we should not hesitate to publish the names of the men whom we deem so misrepresentative of Harvard sportsmanship). And, in the second place, we wish to point out the far-reaching effects of what may have been thought at the time something in the nature of a care-free "party...