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Eliot sent his affirmative decision to the Corporation straightway. He was formally accepted and made president subject to the concurrence of the Overseers. As before mentioned, a concurrent vote of the Overseers was necessary to the validation of the Corporation's choice, and it is a familiar bit of Harvard history that for a while the Overseers declined to concur. The many questions concerning the future are said to have excited opposition in many quarters. The conservatives feared that his election would mean the decline of their influence. The Overseers referred the nomination to a committee on March...
...about slapping faces, seizing cigars and pipes, and crying that every-one at Harvard was a hellion. The students enjoyed every bit of it, and proceeded to swarm about her and sweep her to Sanders Theatre. The boys smashed their way through the door and triumphantly carried Mrs. Nation onto the stage. The crusader again attempted to speak, but the 2000 men who jammed the hall vociferously drowned her out. Someone presented her with a bunch of crysanthemums, which she accepted with profuse bows and acknowledgements...
...comes down to economics, to the necessarily large import trade in eligible males, drunk or sober. Having suffered the drain of this trade for many years, having been fed off the fat of the filled land, having danced to expensive orchestras night after night, Harvard is still a bit prone to echo ungratefully Adams' sentiments; to decide, in the gray awakening after a champagne coming-out, to get his next date at Radcliffe...
...very much to be of flesh and blood. But in the end we do not know whether she was a phantom of his sub-conscious imagination, a ghost, or a real person. We are assured that the whole thing is probably but a lapse into madness, but the last bit of evidence about the finding of the basket she had carried makes us wonder. It is this very uncertainty that makes the story uncanny and also successful...
...morals of certain other reformers one could mention (but bygones are bygones), is convincingly performed. It is comforting to see that when Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are ordered to enact a "cloudburst of passion," they not only do what they are told, but do a good bit of real acting besides...