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Sixteen years of titular kingships under a domineering regency was necessary before the boy-King was to assume control. Whatever hopes the people had placed in Alfonso XIII were instantly blighted. To the man-in-the-street he appeared to be the paragon of haughty despotism?a king caring only for the external magnificance of his court, depending only on the conservative grandees and the bigoted prelates for advice. His former popularity had vanished like snow upon the desert...
Long have composers wagged reproving fingers at the cinema, regarding it as a disorderly small boy whose grubby touch has too often smutted the dress of their lady, Music. Last week, one Josiah Zuro, Presentation Director in a Manhattan cinema theatre, pointed to a way by which composers, by casting an eye to the education of that same grimy juvenile, might better themselves, serve their, mistress to boot. "The cinema," said he, "needs opera-thumbnail opera. It needs opera to take the place of 'presentations'." Who does not know these presentations? In that uneasy ten minutes which intervenes...
...similar ceremony honored Dr. Marion Talbot, Dean of Women at the University of Chicago. Dean Talbot spoke: ". . . . As the Little Lord Fauntleroy type of boy has been superseded by the vigorous, athletic boy scout so the girl, freed from corset and hoopskirt and chignon, in blouse and knickers or swimming tights, performs feats of physical agility and endurance which in the days of her great-grandmother would have condemned her to a social limbus, if not to something worse." She recalled the day when a college woman was considered "a freak and an outcast...
...everybody knows, the so-called outside activities at a place like Harvard are numerous and attractive. Men from private schools, particularly come here, not merely with a boy's eagerness to have a liberal taste of such things after the stricter life of school, but with the emphatic exhortation of there older friends that they should be sure to do something for the College. They, accordingly, feel deeply the responsibility that the dances in Boston go off successfully, and that there are a sufficient number of candidates to manage our teams, edit our papers, and so forth. All this...
...what about the parent? 'Child,' said the mother of Increase Mather, 'if thou art a good Christian and a good scholar, then art all that thy mother ever hoped for thee.' How many of the boys who now fail to meet our standard of scholarship have been led to suppose that their parents measure a boy's success in college largely by his success as a scholar? I do not know. But I do know that, no matter how hard professors and headmasters may work to replace low ideals of scholarship by high ones, our successful scholars will...