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...member of the triangle is quite good. Mr. Carnovsky as the arch-villain can have no higher compliment paid his art than to say that this member of the audience, for one, cameont of the theatre, reviling and blaspheming his Machiavellian character to the provoked horrow of a staid Bostonian night...
...less resounding measures of another critic, this time anonymous--who writes on the same subject in the current "New Republic" are a welcome change. He too is a Bostonian, yet he does not betray his old place. Instead he tries to understand and to judge wisely. "Boston", he says, "is like Harvard College twenty years from now. It is living on a reputation that is gone." And though Harvard College in twenty years will without doubt be far from such decadence, the undergraduate who has studied Boston at all can catch his meaning. Boston is in a sense "put away...
...casual observer, this phenomenon of penurious timidity is mystifying. To the case-hardened Bostonian, it is only wearily disgusting. Politics is conceivably the explanation. Politics was the landscape-gardener for the Esplanade, the recreation director for Franklin Park, the marine zoologist for the Aquarium at City Point, and the engineer for Stuart Street extension. Politics was the architect for a beautiful bridge spanning the Charles at Massachusetts Avenue. Politics was the name of the hard-headed business man that quashed the project and then threw away some bushels of taxpayers money reinforcing the old ugly structure. In the present case...
...some 60 years after its founding, the University was confronted with financial ruin. An appeal for aid was sent to an alumnus, Charles H. Lewis of Boston, a successful business man. On the stipulation that Norwich University became Lewis College, the Bostonian offered financial assistance to the poverty-stricken institution. This was accepted. It served to tide the school over the most trying period in its existence. Two years later, Mr. Lewis met business reverses. Fulfillment of his agreement in whole became impossible. In 1884, Lewis College again became Norwich University...
...ability and superiority to handle air matters on its own; breezy General "Bill" Mitchell, with his riding crop and spurs, a cavalry man who can fly, an Army man strongly advocating the service union which the Navy dreads; Godfrey Cabot, President of the National Aeronautic Association, a Bostonian of the great Cabot clan, so far interested in New York City as to advocate Governor's Island as a landing field, but in a cool detached manner; R. E. M. Cowie, President of the American Railway Express, a canny, able old Scotchman, describing how the pushcart gave...