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...training of the University. Already Speaker of the Massachusetts House, of Representatives and therewith a person of great authority at the State House, he is regarded as a man with an even greater future. The eminence which he has attained is due to a combination of intellectual vigor, personal charm and courageous integrity. The University may well take pride in the fact that he is a Harvard man; and the Class of 1923, which alone will have the privilege of hearing his address at the Senior Class Chapel Service, may consider itself fortunate in having as a speaker...
...these colleges seems to be contentedly intra-mural, with a superficial reporting of what goes on outside. They seem to forget, except for short intervals, that they are in life themselves not just looking at it disinterestedly. But they do wake up sometimes, and each time with increasing vigor and justness...
...street" has a lackadaisical habit of lumping with the American Federation of Labor, socialists, "Reds", anarchists, and hoodlums who make high revel with brickbats. Of this view, so widely held, Mr. Woll's article, which appears in this issue, is a complete refutation. With clarity and vigor he has pointed out that the A. F. L. is not a helpless ward of the state but a buxom, independent part of it, not an enemy but a supporter of the present capitalistic order, not a body with untested theories but one with policies matured out of experience. He has wasted...
...style seems a trifle smart. There is a niceness of phrase and a care for scientific accuracy which makes part of his writing seem artificial. This irritating quality disappears in the later essays, or rather, it is transformed into a convincing sureness. At no time does his writing lack vigor or interest. A study of the subtle changes in his style will go far to show the difference between the writer of promise and the author sure of himself...
...Paris, Gabriel Faure's opera Penelope has been revived at the Opera Comique, after ten years. This piece is in the " noble and intelligent Classic mask," conceived as a piece of chamber music, with the delicacy and original vigor that is associated with Bach's chamber music. It has achieved a succes d'estime, and testifies to the growing popularity of the classic manner...