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...himself competent to pass decisively on the merit of his professors. Orally he indulges in very free expressions of approval and disapproval, and no bones are broken. But when he takes to putting his views in writing, and then publishes them for all the world to read, the undergraduate critic has to be taken seriously...
Whatever son of Harvard reads the condemnation of these noisy times by that wit and critic, essayist and Philadelphian, Agnes Repplier, will remember the hammers that are building the new Fogg Museum and which are heard between words of some lecture in Emerson or Sever, and readily agree. "Noise", says Miss Repplier, "is savage. It is time that scientists were concerned with some means of collecting sound, carrying it away somewhere and dumping it. We need, not an invention to reproduce or carry sound, but one to eliminate it." And there is wisdom in her words. The noise of motor...
Oberlander, Dartmouth's battering, loping Swede, led a running attack that tore Cornell apart for a total of 252 yards, with a score of 62 to 13-the worst beating ever given a Cornell team. Said Critic Grantland Rice: "If Dartmouth can carry on its march against Chicago, it will be ranked as one of the greatest teams of the last ten years...
...BEST PLAYS OF 1924-1925? Burns Mantle, Editor?Small, Maynard ($3.00). Of the 201 new plays which appeared on the Manhattan stage last season, Critic Mantle has selected ten for his Year Book, and he points with pride to the fact that his selection for the first time (although he has made a similar one for the past five years) is composed entirely of plays by American authors...
...were involved with various gems, sat in a box to hear the Chicago Civic Opera open its season with Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. While it may have appeared that she was foolhardy to let herself be seen with so great a fortune glittering upon her person, a critic in the next box observed that she spent her time toying with an object which she took from her vanitv case. It was a police-whistle...