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...Bacon and Mr. Rogers also deserve great credit for their work with pen and brush. The Lampoon has always had a high artistic standard. This reached the height of its glory in the Yale Game number for 1915, and the present board, if given time, could doubtless produce something to excel or even surpass that production...
...first increment of five hundred thousand volunteers will doubtless be asked for within a short time. The method of raising this first army is the difficult problem that Congress will have to solve. When the need of trained men is so apparent as it is now, the great value of a system of universal military training is brought home with great emphasis. If this country had introduced such a system ten years ago the Government would not be confronted with a situation it is totally unprepared to cope with. Enough men would be under arms now to form the first...
...third of the plays made the first piece seem almost a merry trifle. It is called "The Harbour of Lost Ships," and is by Miss Louise Whitefield Bray, a Radcliffe graduate. The scene is laid in Labrador or Green Bay or some correspondingly Arctic atmosphere where the inhabitants, doubtless by reason of the frigidity of the environment, believe in hell with a peculiar ferocity. A boy is about to die in the company of his sister and a parson, who looks in at the last moment to say that the boy is certain to go to hell if he does...
...purchases of books, within the standards applicable to one of the greatest libraries in the world, must increase in difficulty and in special demands out of all proportion to the needs which the average city library is required to meet. If Harvard's library can get additional endowment, doubtless it will be well applied. Boston Transcript...
...Hillyer's reverie on an Elizabethan May-Day is cleverly contrived, with its pleasant descriptions and its snatches of old songs. Some of the reflections in the earlier part have a modern sound, and are not altogether of a piece with the rest. But we are doubtless to understand that the speaker at the outset is Robert Hillyer, who is only gradually merged, in the course of the vision, into William Shakespere...