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...example, at the All Presbyterian Conference of New England held in this city, the moderator of the general assembly declared that "today neither Harvard nor any other great Protestant college gives the first consideration to the peace and prosperity of the Christian Church." Doubtless the speaker was impelled by the best motives in making this sweeping and very vague statement, and therefore we are sure that lie will not object if we take him seriously, for Harvard, though nowadays surrounded by institutions whose competitions it welcomes, is an outstanding factor in the national life. Were this not done, Harvard might...
...Workshop plays have generally been indigenous to America. Their production, furthermore, has always been something in the nature of an experiment. Doubtless the same, only to a larger degree, would hold true of purely undergraduate efforts. The foreign plays which the Dramatic Club has hitherto produced have been well past the testing stage--have been the work of playwrights whose creative powers have reached a dramatic maturity. To abandon the latter seems regrettable. But disregarding the mooted wisdom of the decision, the Dramatic Club is to he commended for its honest effort to meet the needs of the present situation...
...Bullies" was doubtless an unfortunate word; it was intended to convey an impression of the moral strenuousness for which Mr. Eddy is justly famous. "Jolts" would have been better?or "prods," "pounds," "lambasts," "whacks," "scourges," "belts...
Alexander Woollcott?"Doubtless he [the author, Charles Horan, a cinema director] felt The Devil Within to be a bit thick for the movies, so he made it into a play...
...full of juveniles?some of native, some of alien, some of unknown parentage?who are quick to become dicers, toss-pots and wastrels if steps are not taken to make them demean themselves with proper decorum. Last week, two movements were set afoot which will doubtless greatly further the moral education of these Huckleberry Finns? Polish, Jewish, Italian, Irish and American...