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Entertaining in itself as a clever bit of comedy, the play is also of literary interest as one of the few documents of Schiller's relating to the eighteenth century comedy of the "Intriguenstueck" type. In presenting for the first time in its history a play of marked literary value, the Verein is reaching for a higher station in the interpretation of German drama. Such a play entailed more difficulties in staging and costuming than former Verein comedies; but by careful preparation and owing to the presence in the cast of a large number of Germans, they have been successfully...
...thick of the hockey season it may seem a bit previous to begin casting ahead into baseball; but the publication this morning of our baseball schedule and the announcement of Yale's choice of graduate coaches bring up some interesting considerations...
...almost from the start. "The Conciliator," by H. Edgell, a fish story in New England dialect, and "McVane's Retirement." by R. E. Andrews, the story of a railroad wreck, are decidedly conventional both in style and plot. Mr. Wheclock's poem. "A Work of Art," is a dignified bit of verse, characterized, like all his work, by serious purpose and marked excellence of form...
...only fair to the present number to admit that there are some good touches among the wealth of the commonplace. "Phrases from Novels" (p. 200), the dernier cri of the Freshman's welcome home (p. 206), the limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances (p. 208), the bit about Harvard irreligion (p. 209), make one laugh from natural impulse, and not from college spirit, or friendship with their editors. We wish, however, that Lampy could be persuaded to dismiss the slave and wring the Ibis's neck. It would spare us and him much in point of soliloquies...
...character and showing that his greatness lay not in lacking human passions, but in controlling them, except on those rare occasions when to have done so would have been more than human. One of the most wholesome things that an American can do is to read a good bit of Washington's correspondence during the Revolutionary War. Then he can appreciate the constancy and grandeur of the man in the midst of unparalleled difficulties. For him who has not the time or the opportunity to do this, the fifth chapter of "The Seven Ages of Washington" can be commended...