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...goosestep to Still man-on-the Charles. For when the "Younger Generation" is of the morrow, "Sunset by the Shore" will still be of today. And when the editors of college lit erary magazines begin editing and writing for their readers "as, for example, the editors of college comic magazines do," we may have more "vitality", but we are not likely to have college literary magazines...
...Paul Jackson, and an editorial on Advance Information, concerning the selection of new courses, are timely discussions of very interesting problems. A story, "All That Glitters," by Miss R. E. Judkins, which is a serious treatment of the ever-old, ever-new marriage question, in spite of the comic sub-head, "A Pr-r-roblem Story!", and a story-thesis, "Talbot and Atropos," by Mr. L. F. Ranlett '21, an intricate treatment of an astronomical possibility, are thrown in for good measure. There are no poems; there is no familiar essay...
...Advocate on the technique of modern football, on the teaching of literature at Harvard, on the decline of the discussion-group idea here to select a few topics offhand. If the editors of college literary magazines edited and wrote for their readers as, for example, the editors of college comic magazines do, their creations would have vastly more vitality and probably just as much, if not more, literary merit. The aim of the editors should be not merely to embalm choice literary productions, but rather to stimulate discussion, to contribute definitely to undergraduate intellectual life...
...concert of the Harvard Glee Club in New York was a far cry from the traditional musical club events of the past, with their comic glees and their tinkling mandolins. The Harvard club sang a most taxing program, running from unaccompanied music of the early Roman Church down through the best music of the Romanticists and the moderns. The singing of the club was a revelation in male chorus work--equal, in fact, to any male chorus singing by amateurs that the writer has ever heard. What is more, the approval of the audience for the singing of the club...
Proving that the negro has real dramatic as well as comic ability in the theatre, the Provincetown Players in New York have cast Charles S. Gilpin, a negro actor, in the title role of Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones...