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...When the Hun tried to force kultur down the throats of his neighbors and acquaintances, and lost a few fingers in the operation, football did its bit," writes Walter Trumbull '15 in the current issue of The American Legion Weekly, the official publication of The American Legion...
March is to bring with it one bit of festivity at least, for on the evening of Friday, March 5, the class of 1921 will give its contribution to the social schedule of the College--the Junior dance. As was the case last year, the dance will be held in the Harvard Union, and since, under its new management, the Union has undergone such a vast improvement over its mess hall atmosphere of last winter, the committee in charge has great hopes of outdoing the highly successful party given a year ago by the present Senior Class...
...well-known artists who have made it a success on Broadway will be seen and heard when the piece is given its Boston hearing. Among the principals may be mentioned Kenneth Douglass, Estelle Winwood, Lawrence Grossmith and Fritz Williams. "Too Many Husbands" has been hailed as the most brilliant bit of playwriting since Oscar Wilde's comedies. It treats humorously of the predicament of a young widow who marries a second time, only to learn, a year subsequently, that her first husband was not shot in the war as had been announced. His home-coming starts a series of situations...
...other college papers awaited the arrival of Mother Advocate before sampling the verse of the month. Certainly the seven poetic contributions of this number are exemplary, in skill at least, of the old standard. Mr. Cabot's "Transcendency" being diabolically clever, is balanced by a conventional but charming bit from Mr. Sedgwick, and their juxtaposition on the same page shows excellent editorial acumen. Turning back a page we find Mr. Rogers' "where fauns with shadows play," while below him Mr. McLane in Swiftian style lampoons certain dull poetasters. "To still the Memnonian music of Song's lisps" is quite delightful...
...Colonel Roosevelt "average"? Not a bit. He is a real chip of the old block, combative, honest, direct--not to say blunt--like his father before him. His war record was first rate; his book is a good deal better than might be expected from an author of little literary experience. There is lots of the Roosevelt personality in the book, and lots of the First Division spirit. For some, and let us hope many readers, that should be sufficient recommendation...