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President Atwood's reply to the charges, as quoted in the Boston papers, begins with the inevitable counter charge that his critics are radicals, and then continues in the following vein : "It's all bosh. Clark's athletic life is just beginning. Hitherto Clark did not compete with other colleges in athletics. They would meet them in debating but not in baseball. Now we are having varsity teams and the college spirit is being fostered." Follows a disquisition on college spirit and discontent, and then: "Next year I think there will be no faculty members here...
Miniatures of Young Love and Old, Done in Quiet Humor The Story. For his latest volume Mr. Tarkington has collected thirteen stories in his lighter vein. For the setting of these amusing tales he selects a large middle western city (presumably Indianapolis), or one of the growing middle western towns...
When Victor Hugo, in his most dramatic vein, told the tale of a cannon that came loose from its moorings and plunged unchecked about the deck of a vessel at sea, dealing destruction to the crew, critics crowed right and left that he was the most arrant Romanticist, and that the scene was too far-fetched to carry conviction. Another of his most famous passages met with the same scepticism--the under-water battle with an octopus. Yet within six months, both of these incidents have been performed on the stage of everyday life. Last fall the newspapers told...
...hard a worker as there is in any country, but although he works hard he has very little to show for it in comparison with laborers in America. The miner's job over there is an especially arduous one. I have seen miners work stretched out in a vein only eighteen inches thick for a great length of time, without even being able to sit up. For this he receives only a very modest wage. The conditions are better in the steel mills in the north of France, which are aiding in the reconstruction of the devastated territory...
...first public presentation in America, the play is of special interest because of the brilliant success of Andreyev's "He Who Gets Slapped" as produced last season by the New York Theatre Guild. The new play bears the same stamp of merciless, sardonic humor in a thoroughly Russian vein, such as distinguished the other play. It is a drama of five scenes and a prologue...