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Time passed; there seemed little hope that the 47 Workshop was going to have the facilities which the advantages of modern stagecraft afford. Then came the calm at one of the least hopeful moments in the storm. Professor Baker had accepted, now that Harvard would not or could not furnish him with an equipment, an extremely generous offer from Yale. The funds and plans were arranged: Yale, Mr. Harkness and Professor Baker had announced their mutual willingnes to cooperate in a plan which for almost fourteen years had been the hope and goal of many American people--devotees...
...passed last year, provides a code duello for railroaders, every nicety of which the factors of this case followed meticulously. Thus a year ago, the conductors and trainmen notified their employers that they wanted a 19% increase in pay-$38,000,000. "But no! we can't afford it," replied employers. "Let us send our seconds before the U. S. Mediation Board." "Quite agreeable," replied workmen. The Mediation Board, appointed under provisions of the Watson-Parker Act, listened to representatives of both sides. "Oh, get together, gentlemen," said the Mediation Board. "Oh, no," said the others. This seemed like...
...also bad housekeepers, and it is just as inexcusable for the railroads to be careless and neglectful as it is for the farmers. ... I am convinced that in the long run it actually pays in dollars and cents to keep picked up, but in any event we can afford and actually do afford to do some things not because they pay directly but just because to do so gives us a certain worth while feeling of satisfaction. That is why men wear collars, have their hair cut and shave; and also why girls bob their hair, powder their noses...
...absolutely refuses to do his natural duty as a husband. He wants no more children. Professor Paolina assumes the Captain's domestic responsibilities with embarrassing consequences. Mrs. Petella will have a child. How to make the home-coming Captain do his duty on a 24-hour leave, thus afford a respectable explanation for the oncoming offspring-ah, that is for the doctors and apothecaries to work out. This play is something for every editor of a respectable dramatic column to worry about. Osgood Perkins, who scored so high as the very wisecracker in Loose Ankles, now takes over...
...send their graduates for the Junior and Senior work. There will, of course, remain the strong non-university college like Amberst and Vassar which will not want to do this. Nor would it be necessary that they should. It is desirable to have colleges to which students who can afford the time and money and have the inclination can spend four years in a general cultural education. Moreover, one of the best features of education in the United States is the fact that it is not wholly standardized and unified as in most continental European countries. Opportunity is there...