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That is, one who goes to see this play should regard it as a story, not a lesson, an evening's entertainment, not a dramatized American problem. Mr. Klein is writing not for the analytical critic but for the story-loving public...
...graduate board consisting of Professor G. P. Baker '87, Mr. Winthrop Ames '95, formerly director of the New Theatre in New York, and Mr. H. T. Parker '90, dramatic critic of the Boston Transcript, will pass on the plays submitted...
When one considers the relative importance of the four major sports and the minor ones, no fair-minded critic will question the right of Cornell's athletes to rank first this year. Yale and Pennsylvania are the only other universities that ever won such high honors in a single year, and when it is considered that Cornell, had some claim to the baseball championship as well, which is here awarded to Princeton, it may be stated that Cornell's 1911 record is just a little bit superior to anything ever done by either Pennsylvania or Yale...
...essayette on Henley is over-wrought in style and in feeling. A critic who calls Henley a "Luther of English Poetdom" has invalidated even the sanest statements which follow. Nothing is to be gamed by proclaiming a lovable minor bard as the valiant champion in a poetic reformation. The study of "H. G. Wells and the Socialist Aristocracy" is clear, concise, and in all respects convincing, if only we assume--like the writer--that the peculiar brand of socialism which Wells has adopted for literary purposes is really to be reckoned with as propaganda. Wells's "New Machiavelli," which...
...wishes to put his attention, and in order to do well in those, remain indifferent to the others. Depth of interest in one thing rather than breadth and possible shallowness in many activities is, in the final analysis, the thing which is most worth attaining. Undergraduates are too often criticized for indifference when that indifference is only a lack of interest in the critic's special activity...