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...searching around for nice things to say about this week's Fenway program, it seems on the whole best to dwell on Leatrice Joy's "Made for Love" and leave "The Red Kimono" (Is that the way you spell "Kimono"?) discreetly in the background. Discussing even this one, it will be necessary to tread cautiously. It would be easy to get unpleasant, and that wouldn't do at all because just now the Playgoer editor is conducting a campaign to be as nice as possible to everybody and try to remove this department's reputation for cynicism and general...
...higher education. College doors have been thrown open to the world, and over their portals have been inscribed a standing invitation to "Enter to grow in wisdom." From all directions and all conditions of life the aspirants have come: from mansion and hovel, from city and village, from adequate background and from no background at all, the motley thousands have crowded within the college gates...
...gavotte, varsovien, etc. And these are not proposed as substitutes for all present modes, but as forms to be interspersed with them. In a well-devised musical program, the architectural music of Bach or Mozart is likely to appear with that of Debussy or Stravinski; the formless needs a background of form to make it so much as interesting to an intelligent enjoyer. The barn-dances, upon which you dwell, are of course merely the play-boy accompaniment of a period and have a folklorist sort of interest; they are not justly taken as typical of the movement you comment...
...when you are in love when you are thrilled with affection? You do not give any explanation, for you feel you cannot give positive proofs. It is the same with me; because I believe in it intensely I am willing to throw up everything. With that belief in the background one can build a new civilization, a new society, a new spiritual aristocracy...
...first prize of $300 was awarded for Cromwell's essay on "The Theory of International Gold Movements." Chalufour's study entitled "Investment Banking in France" received the second award of $200. Honorable mention was received by Stilwell for his paper on "The Industrial Background of Modern China...