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...theatre. The play is divided into five episodes. The two most conspicuous are that wherein Pasteur addresses the reactionary Academy of Medicine?heckling members of which are planted here and there amongst the audience?and that in which he effects the first cure for hydrophobia on a young boy...
...least promise in a "suspension of disbelief" while awaiting the verdict of investigation. And it can be suggested that, even if the scientist should be excused as a quack, he may at least have the prospect of making a living in another way. For a certain boy, on whom a pig's eye was grafted recently, although unable to see clearly has entered a career on the vaudeville stage, and, with the pig as his co-partner, is "doing nicely...
...York Call (Socialist) has a sporting page that would do credit to many a more powerful journal. Last week The Call compared Christy Mathewson, newly-elected president of the Boston Braves, to Frank Merriwell, hero of school boy fiction...
SKEETERS KIRBY-Edgar Lee Masters-Macmillan ($2.00). Skeeters starts in as a boy; continues through a period of heavy drinking, sexual misbehavior, hard thinking, unsuccessful marrying, and a distasteful attempt at the law: finally finds himself as a poet. The book aims high. Whether it is uniformly successful is open to question. It is, at all events, vivid, powerful-and outspoken...
Schoolmasters are not equipped to conduct the delicate task of effecting the exchange of pupils. They and the schools which they represent, and the trustees which back them, should signify a willingness to welcome foreign boys. An international agency, such as the Junior Red Cross, might then very well undertake the business of selecting the boy representatives on both sides. What American students in school and college should do is to develop the welcoming habit of mind. Then if our schools are permitted to make the generous venture, we students here at home will be ready to do our share...