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...poetry in this issue is uneven. Mr. Kenneth Dole's "A Farmer Boy Dreams of Wandering", though pleasantly ringing with sonorous names, fails of any effect but that of looseness. His changing metres do not modulate into one another; they clash roughly, giving the impression that the author has written down at random, without revising, Mr. Smart's "Lines before a Fairy Tale", is wholly delightful; a small bit of decoration provocatively brief. Mr. John Abbott's "Marginal" is also a good picture, but, unfortunately, must join that great body of poems with weary last lines. His "Sonnet for Cynthia...
...attractiveness of extra-curriculum activities comes from the fact that the student goes into them through natural inclination; he is his own compulsion. A man without a leaning towards any college activity would probably take his share of the newly prescribed college life much as a small boy takes his dose of castor oil. Perhaps, after all, this move at Middlebury is a feint, in strict accordance with the tactics of the Missouri mule "skinner", to drive the student back to his studies...
...school in Croydon (London), where teachers are striking against a 5% reduction in salary, the pupils declined to be taught by substitutes. The boys met one of these temporary masters in class with cries of" Blackleg!" When the master threatened to cane one boy, the whole class rushed him and he was forced to beat a hasty retreat. Jubilant over their victory, the boys then indulged in an orgy of "crashing" windows and desks, carrying their celebrations out into the yard. They were finally quelled by the police. The strike is said to be the first of its kind...
...younger literati themselves. The authors of The Forty-Niners (recent dramatic fiasco) eat lunch four times a week with the young critics, but they did not save Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Marc Connolly, and Ring Lardner from a sound critical lashing. Heywood Broun's novel The Boy Grew Older was enthusiastically welcomed by the older and more conventional reviewers, but Broun's friends ridiculed and disparaged it as viciously as if it had been written by Zane Grey...
...addition to the four scheduled performances of the trip, two benefit performances of some of the specialties were given. The first of these was held in the Casino Theatre in New York City on Sunday evening April 15, in behalf of the Boy Scouts of America, while the second was given on Tuesday afternoon in Washington before about 700 wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Hospital...