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...Wonderful Visit. Another dream play, less truant. It achieves a Messianic message without driving one's tear ducts bankrupt. H. G. Wells and St. John Ervine, in dramatizing Wells' early novel of the same name, have discarded much of its pungent satire, playing safe with more drama. They set forth the earthly visit of an angel, intent on spreading sweetness and light, who finds himself gradually steeped in sticky mortality. He seeks tolerance for a lovelorn housemaid left with a war baby, lashes a war profiteer who forces his attentions on her, agitates the lady of the manor...
...University. The team has gone to New Haven to win and the support of the student body is unflinching and enthusiastic. Whether we come off triumphant or downed in defeat, the climax of this enthusiasm should be sportsmanlike to the last degree. The man who lets the truant spirit carry him off his feet, who forgets that what he does is done in the name of his University, is no true son of Harvard. But the same strong, though temperate, confidence that we have in the team to do its utmost for victory, we place in every Harvard...
...willing to give up one or more nights during the winter for the benefit of the inmates of the city institutions. Heretofore Harvard men have organized small visiting troupes and quartettes, or have gone singly for this purpose, giving entertainments at the Cambridge Almshouse, the Boston Lunatic Asylum, the Truant School, the Home for Incurables, and the State Reform School. Men who can do anything in the way of brightening the lives of these people are urged to call on Mr. Birtwell any Tuesday evening between 7 and 8 in Brooks House or write to M. Bloomfield...
...needs and future careers. The men have undertaken service for the Associated Charities of Boston, the Home Libraries of the Boston Children's Aid Society, the Society for Home Savings, the North End Union, the Italian Mission, the Parker Memorial, the Newsboys' Reading Room and Boys' Club, the Boston Truant School, and the State Reform School for Boys...
Entertainments by "troupes," -the "Vocal Troupe," the "Sleight-of-Hand Troupe" and the "Student Volunteer Orchestra," -have been given in institutions where monotony or suffering makes such diversions peculiarly welcome-the Cambridge Almshouse, the Boston Home for Incurables, the Boston Insane Hospital, the Suffolk County Parental School (truant school), the Lyman school (state reform school), the Lyman school (state reform school), the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, and other institutions...