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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...handling them. These three acts are written in a graceful poetic "honnete" and sentimental style that made it a success at the "Comedie Francaise" in 1911. It was a sort of reply to the excesses of the brutal and rough France much favored by some playwrights of the same date; the "theatre rose" after the "theatre rosse." "Primerose" pleased and still pleases the audience by an irony without bitterness, a satire without anger, and an "indulgence" in which witticism and emotion are skillfully combined. It pleases more than all by its "esprit"-a light and brilliant sort of "esprit," crackling...
...recent storm and the great pressure of business, Major-General Leonard Wood, M. D. '84, will be unable to speak at the Union this week, as was originally planned. General Wood has promised to give an address at a later date...
...Cultivating in students the habit of docile acceptance of doctrines, however safe in themselves, is no insurance against mischievous doctrine. A student who accepts one theory in this passive fashion is just as liable to accept its contrary at a later date. The only method on which reliance can safely be placed is that of training the student in the first-hand investigation of facts; in the power of seeing which facts are significant; and in the drawing of valid inferences. To learn to think straight is the chief aim of a college education...
...date of the annual University boxing, wrestling and fencing tournament has been definitely announced to take place February 25, at which time the various indoor sport championships of the University will be decided in Brattle Hall...
...collection of books illustrating the early history of the colleges, or associated with early College officers and benefactors, has been withdrawn for the present, but will be placed in the cases at a later date...