Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...history of the civilized world. Whether we believe that a new Heaven and a new earth are about to be ushered in, or that the old hell and the old world are to remain, we must see that the spirit of revolution is loose. This spirit will either lead us to make some definite steps in progress, or cause us to run down a steep place into the sea. It is not to be assumed that every change is necessarily for the better. Nations have gone wrong almost as frequently as they have gone right in the past, and will...
...comedy, "The Mollusc." A war story with a spiritual theme has to be unusually convincing to hold the interest of the theatre going audience today--the public is rather well fed up now on the war. Yet Barries' play is not only convincing, it is artistic and sets us to metaphysical speculations and analyses, which our ordinary every day life tends to suppress...
...voice moves about the room,--we are convinced by it all until the voice begins to tell how he died and mentions life after death. In that instant the picture is man made; we feel it to be mere speculation and we are disappointed. But somehow Barrie wins us back; henceforth we do not believe that death is like this, yet before the play is over we are as interested as before...
George Arliss, as the father, gives us a remarkably distinguished picture of the British spirit which made it possible for England to go on building more ships and munitions, and sending millions of here sons into battle, when the flower of the nation had died. Mrs. Arliss affords her husband able support, and Olive Tell, as the old sweetheart, is pleasant to look upon...
...Yard Freshmen are to be given an opportunity to board with their fellows in Gore and Standish Halls. No mere matter of physical distance should deter them from taking advantage of this proferred chance to get better acquainted with their class; the benefits far outweigh any possible disadvantages. Let us not see 1922 go through college with a "Yard clique" distinct from the rest of the class...