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Comment on the Yale windfall was chiefly congratulatory. There were some persons, however, who qualified their felicitations with the hope that young people would not be encouraged to express themselves "before they have thought and observed vitally, and during those years when they might better be acquiring a background that would enhance all that they might subsequently care to express." In a word, that Prof. Baker's expensive work at Yale be dedicated, not to the alleviation of yearnings of the undergraduate ego, but to the serious business of fostering a national drama...
...mention of that composite, non-existent creature--the college man--one never thinks of furrowed brow or snow white locks. A dapper youth with ruddy face and varnished hair, in some non-chalant pose upon a Hart, Schaffner--& Marx background, is the popular conception of this mystical creature. The reading public will find its ideal rudely shattered by an article in December "Sribner's" called "A Freshman Again at Sixty...
...about as much as she belongs in the Chinese army. Miss Larrimore is a vivid young woman with a drawl. She is the kind that ought to go suddenly into an Apache dance with the District Attorney and stab her way back to the underworld. Against a Bar Harbor background she jars perceptibly. Still that was the way the whole play went. It was a cheap conception by Cosmo Hamilton, probably having originally a sound satirical value. The latter was played out of it by a poor cast and burlesqued by a bad director...
...plays an Algerian dance-hall girl in the background of whose tinseled existence is a U. S. soldier. She had formerly dedicated her life to a hulking Luigi who has saved her from drowning. She finds he was not worth...
Pelham's puzzle is rectangular in shape, featuring the word JUDGE in bold black letters, with "Ha Ha" rampant on a checked background in the corners. An unusual feature is two unkeyed words, each with a single letter, which gives the puzzle an unusually bizarre aspect...