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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regards the student, it is well for those so inclined to consider the opportunities of a scholar's career at this time. The history of the war, for example, will probably be best written in America, where partiality may be avoided. Undoubtedly the ideas which may solve the problem of militarism will arise in pacific America. Pupils often grow up to instruct their elders. May not the United States become in many things teacher of the world...
...most successful plays now running on Broadway are products of Harvard playwrights, Fred Ballard, and Cleves Kinkead, both graduates of Professor Baker's Englsih 47. Mr. Ballard's "Young America" has been written since he left Harvard, but Mr. Kinkead's Common Clay", last year's Craig Prize Play which had the record run of seventeen weeks at the Castle Square Theatre, was written while here. The fact that seats for both these plays are selling eight weeks ahead is the strongest possible refutation of Broadway's former asseveration that the University's professor made playwrights are too impracticable...
...Without exception, the critics hailed the play as a distinct success. It is the dramatic story of the adventures of two bad boys and a clever dog, the latter being in the New York Heralds estimation, the leading "man", who "played" with finesse and "tact". "Young America" was written round the juvenile court idea, and with this institution as a background; the author has treated the life of the youthful offenders with such understanding sympathy that he brought forth many such comments as that of the New York press: "Memory fails to bring to mind a more human and affecting...
Much of the criticism of Germany in English and American war literature of the past few months is written in such a vein as to leave the impression that the Germany of today is not the real Germany, that it is a perversion of its former self, and that the delivery of the German people from this perverted state and the restoration of the German mind to its earlier and truer type is a demand of humanity, and the real issue of the present war. I have no doubt that most of the persons who hold this view hold...
...Cutler '09 has written in the Graduates' Magazine of the valuable service rendered by University graduates in hospital service in France, England and Servia. The work of the main unit at Paris is carefully described in detail in the article, parts of which are given here...