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...Pudding is out again, with a musical show that is much better than average, with a book containing some good lines, music that comes up to a high standard of red, white and blue syncopation, accurate dancing, clean, pretty costumes, a leading woman of uncommon excellence, and a spirit that is altogether exceptional. The leading woman is so darned good that it is a temptation to dismiss the production of "Laugh it Off" with the review, "Wilson, that...
...year at Yale, teaching as assistant professor of Systematic Theology, when Smith College offered him its presidency. His career at Smith lasted for seven years. It brought into play the powers which had been already manifest and were yet to be more manifest-an extremely good mind, an uncommon amount of energy, tact and administrative ability joined to a sense of scholarship...
...platform of Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, stood a tall Russian. He had sparkling eyes, thin hands, greying hair, a tailor. He was Serge Koussevitzky, new conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, making his Manhattan debut. With uncommon dignity he turned his back on the notable company assembled in that hall, raised his arms. Rank on rank behind him stood, sat, lounged, the many who had come to see whether the Boston Symphony had any chance of regaining the haughty place it held before Dr. Karl Muck went to Fort Oglethorpe under the Espionage act in 1917, whether it were true that...
...Senator La Follette will not be elected, of course," he said. "No one expects him to be. But in his fine campaign in which he brought real issues into an otherwise empty fight on the question of 'Common Honesty versus Uncommon Dishonesty,' he has laid the foundation of what will become the permanent Progressive party of the future. It will be for this work of lasting value to the United States that this election and Senator La Follette will be remembered...
...much talked of indifference of the case hardened Harvard student is in danger. If plans of a committee interested in the reelection of Senator Walsh are carried out, the spectacle of a Harvard man gesticulating wildly from the summit of a soap box may not be uncommon about the streets of Boston and Cambridge...