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...Senior in Harvard College the publication of the Class Album has come to be an event with perhaps a bit more of sentiment in it than attaches to the formality of receiving a degree. It is not strange. The whole record of those four years, insofar as it can be photographed and walled up in sentences and paragraphs, is collected between the covers, and to give the Album a place on even the dustiest shelf is to possess, when it was richest, a corner of the Yard...
...desire the rehabilitation of the Tsar's army (for which purpose Kitchener started to Russia), and entered into negotiations with the revolutionaries for the express purpose of demoralizing not only the military but the civil power. It is a matter of common knowledge that this insidious bit of weltpolitik was only too successful; and it hardly seems possible that Germany can escape the responsibility (as an act of war) for Kitchener's death...
...Bit o' Love. Most significant, most discouraging was the Actors' Theatre production of John Galsworthy's A Bit o' Love. It has become something of the mode to misprize Galsworthy. No surer example of the justice of this attitude has recently appeared. Mr. Galsworthy has attempted an emotional justification of Christian Faith. His curate hero has recently lost his wife in the ancient thicket of infidelity. He turns the other cheek and refuses to chastise the offending male. He refuses even to make a fuss about it and injure that unworthy's reputation...
These things should be done in a tent with a sawdust trail down the centre aisle. A Bit o' Love was treated to the directive delicacy of Robert Milton. It had to be; under sawdust severity, it might have dropped apart. For this reason, its vigor seemed a simulation. Even excellent acting could not save...
Taken in full, A Bit o' Love seems imply a pale copy of what some preacher once said to Mr. Galsworthy in church...