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Someone has said that it is safe to go to a play by Bernard Shaw provided that you do not take him seriously. It has also been suggested that Shaw will never be understood until he is captured alone, without an audience, and held to a direct answer of "Yes" or "No" to every question put to him. These two semi-truisms are by no means the be all and end all of Shaviainism; but they go a long way in helping most of us to understand the playwright. "Getting Married," playing this week at the Copley, is no exception...
...their huge mass, and threatening to founder even the ship that has ridden out the gale. Conditions have not yet returned to a normal state; nor has the world adjusted itself to them. In such a state of bewilderment, of misunderstandings, of cross purposes, what is needed? The answer is clear thinking...
...remainder of this week, Mr. Walter I. Tibbetts '17, Graduate Secretary, will be at Phillips Brooks House from 9 until 4, and W. E. Stearns '23, chairman of the Spread Committee, will keep office hours to sell tickets and invitations, as well as to answer any questions about the Spread...
...intelligence test. He required only thirteen of the seventeen minutes allowed to complete the test, a feat which was une ualed by any of the 3,000,000 service men who took this examination during the war period. Some of the words whose meaning he had to give to answer the questions are, pomology, cleistogamous, chamfer and guimpe...
...answer that the advocates of President Harding's plan for voluntary service would make to these optimists is that no human being can foretell emergencies. More than one sober man feels that this country has a troublesome path ahead for some time to come; and agrees with the President that this nation should be strong enough to fear no one. Such opinions come not always from jingos and alarmists, but from men who know much more than the rising generation about the future. Moreover the permanent military policy of the country calls for a standing army of only...